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Japanese Spacecraft to Search for Clues of Earth's First Life
August 29, 2012 — The Japanese space agency JAXA plans to land a spacecraft onto an asteroid in 2018 to search for clues of how life began on ... > full story -
Walls of Lunar Crater May Hold Patchy Ice
August 29, 2012 — Scientists have estimated the maximum amount of ice likely to be found inside a permanently shadowed lunar crater located near the moon's south pole. As much as 5 to 10 percent of material, by ... > full story -
Lunar 'Hit-and-Run': New Research Eclipses Existing Theories on Formation of the Moon
August 29, 2012 — A new study highlights a novel perspective on how the moon was formed. The moon is believed to have formed from a collision, 4.5 billion years ago, between Earth and an impactor the size of Mars, ... > full story -
Researchers Simulate Volcanic Eruptions: Large-Scale Experiment to Shed Light on Powerful Natural Disaster
August 14, 2012 — A rare large-scale attempt to simulate volcanic eruptions will provide much-needed insight into one of Earth's most powerful and mysterious natural ... > full story -
NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Installing Smarts for Driving
August 10, 2012 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will spend its first weekend on Mars transitioning to software better suited for tasks ahead, such as driving and using its strong robotic arm. The rover's "brain ... > full story -
ChemCam Sends Digital ‘thumbs Up’: Martian Landing Area Could Be a Boon for Scientific Study
August 9, 2012 — Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team got a digital thumbs up about the operational readiness of their instrument just hours after the rover landed on Martian soil late ... > full story -
New Mars Rover Beams Back Images Showing Its Descent
August 7, 2012 — Just hours after NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars, a select group of images taken by the onboard Mars Descent Imager, or MARDI, were beamed back to Earth. The 297 color, low-resolution images, ... > full story -
NASA's New Mars Rover Sends Higher-Resolution Image
August 6, 2012 — About two hours after landing on Mars and beaming back its first image, NASA's Curiosity rover transmitted a higher-resolution image of its new Martian home, Gale Crater. Mission Control at NASA's ... > full story -
How Life Turned Left: Meteorite Fragments Help Explain Why Living Things Only Use Molecules With Specific Orientations
July 25, 2012 — Researchers analyzing meteorite fragments that fell on a frozen lake in Canada have developed an explanation for the origin of life's handedness -- why living things only use molecules with specific ... > full story -
Two Solar System Puzzles Solved
July 25, 2012 — How did icy comets obtain particles that formed at high temperatures, and how did the particles acquire rims with different compositions? Scientists have now modeled the trajectories of refractory ... > full story
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