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Complex Chemistry Within the Martian Soil: No Definitive Detection of Organics Yet
December 3, 2012 — NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil. Water and sulfur and ... > full story -
Hubble Spots a Peculiar Compact Blue Dwarf Galaxy
December 3, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured an impressive image of the irregular galaxy NGC 5253. NGC 5253 is one of the nearest of the known Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) galaxies, and is located at a ... > full story -
Swirling Storms on Saturn
December 3, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been traveling the Saturnian system in a set of inclined, or tilted, orbits that give mission scientists a vertigo-inducing view of Saturn's polar regions. This ... > full story -
Have Venusian Volcanoes Been Caught in the Act?
December 3, 2012 — Six years of observations by the European Space Agency's Venus Express have shown large changes in the sulfur dioxide content of the planet's atmosphere, and one intriguing possible explanation is ... > full story -
Even Brown Dwarfs May Grow Rocky Planets: Sizing Up Grains of Cosmic Dust Around Failed Star
November 30, 2012 — Astronomers have for the first time found that the outer region of a dusty disc encircling a brown dwarf contains millimeter-sized solid grains like those found in denser discs around newborn stars. ... > full story -
New View of the Sun: Radio Telescope Could Save World Billions Through Advanced Warnings
November 30, 2012 — A small pocket of Western Australia’s remote outback is set to become the eye on the sky and could potentially save the world billions of dollars. The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio ... > full story -
Scientists Discover Water Ice on Mercury: Ice and Organic Material May Have Been Carried to the Planet by Passing Comets
November 29, 2012 — Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system, revolves around the sun in a mere 88 days, making a tight orbit that keeps the planet incredibly toasty. Surface temperatures on ... > full story -
The Beginning of Everything: New Paradigm Shift for the Infant Universe
November 29, 2012 — A new paradigm for understanding the earliest eras in the history of the universe has been developed. The new paradigm shows, for the first time, that the large-scale structures we now see in the ... > full story -
Can Life Emerge on Planets Around Cooling Stars?
November 29, 2012 — New research hints that planets orbiting white and brown dwarfs, even in the habitable zone, face a "difficult path to ... > full story -
Too Much Dark Matter in Galaxy Cluster? 'Dark Core' May Not Be So Dark After All
November 29, 2012 — Astronomers were puzzled earlier this year when NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted an overabundance of dark matter in the heart of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520. This observation was ... > full story
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