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Meteorites Reveal Another Way to Make Life's Components
March 9, 2012 — Creating some of life's building blocks in space may be a bit like making a sandwich -- you can make them cold or hot, according to new NASA research. This evidence that there is more than one way to ... > full story -
Magnetic Moon: Magnetic Anomalies on Moon Are Result of Asteroid Collision
March 8, 2012 — Astronomers have proposed a surprisingly simple explanation for magnetic anomalies that have baffled scientists since the mid-1960s -- they are remnants of a massive asteroid. The researchers believe ... > full story -
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New Research Supports Theory of Extraterrestrial Impact
March 5, 2012 — Scientists have identified a nearly 13,000-year-old layer of thin, dark sediment buried in the floor of Lake Cuitzeo in central Mexico. The sediment layer contains an exotic assemblage of materials, ... > full story -
The Blue Planet's New Water Budget: Do We Have Enough?
March 5, 2012 — Investigating the history of water on Earth is critical to understanding the planet's climate. One central question is whether Earth has always had the same amount of water on and surrounding it, the ... > full story -
Evolving Planets Get a Bumpy Ride
March 5, 2012 — The formation of planets occurs under constant bombardment from particles ranging from a few nanometers to tens of kilometers in size, according to recent analyses of asteroid samples by scientists. ... > full story -
Sun Delivered Curveball of Powerful Radiation at Earth
February 1, 2012 — A potent follow-up solar flare, which occurred Jan. 17, 2012, just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection seen in nearly a decade, delivered a powerful radiation punch to ... > full story -
Giant Asteroid Vesta Likely Cold and Dark Enough for Ice
January 25, 2012 — Though generally thought to be quite dry, roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold and to receive so little sunlight that water ice could have survived there for billions of ... > full story -
Waiting for Death Valley's Big Bang: Volcanic Explosion Crater May Have Future Potential
January 23, 2012 — In California's Death Valley, death is looking just a bit closer. Geologists have determined that the half-mile-wide Ubehebe Crater, formed by a prehistoric volcanic explosion, was created far more ... > full story -
Moon-Walk Mineral Discovered in Western Australia
January 15, 2012 — The last mineral thought to have been unique to the Moon has been discovered in the remote Pilbara region of Western ... > full story -
Mars Rover to Spend Winter at 'Greeley Haven'
January 6, 2012 — NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend the next few months during the coldest part of Martian winter at Greeley Haven, an outcrop of rock on Mars recently named informally to honor ... > full story
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