Report: Managing Space Radiation Risk in the New Era of Space Exploration “For astronauts, however, there is one danger in space that does not end when they step out of […]
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Interplanetary Hitchikers
Life Forms Ejected on Asteroid Impact Could Survive to Reseed Earth According to a Study Published in Astrobiology “In the event that an asteroid or comet would impact Earth and […]
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Are Terrestrial Planets Common?
Evolution of Mid-IR Excess Around Sun-like Stars: Constraints on Models of Terrestrial Planet Formation“We report observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) regarding the frequency of 24 micron excess emission […]
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Imre Friedmann
Noted astrobiologist Imre Friedmann has died, SpaceRef“Noted astrobiologist Imre Friedmann died yesterday morning. Friedmann’s main interest was the microbial ecology of absolute extreme environments – how life adapts to some […]
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DEPTHX Bot Explores Ultra Deep Sinkhole
NASA DEPTHX Robot Completes Test Drive of Exploration Capabilities (plus extra photos)“In late May, a NASA-funded robot successfully navigated one of the world’s deepest sinkholes. The mission could be a […]
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Primordial Soup Cook Dies
Father of ‘Origin of Life’ Chemistry at UC San Diego Dies“Stanley L. Miller, an emeritus professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego whose famous laboratory […]
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Evidence of an Ancient – and Wet – Mars Discovered
NASA Mars Rover Spirit Unearths Surprise Evidence of Wetter Past“This is some of the best evidence Spirit has found for water at Gusev,” said Albert Yen, a geochemist at NASA’s […]
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First Habitable Extrasolar Planet Discovered
Astronomers find first habitable Earth-like planet, ESO“Astronomers have discovered the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, an exoplanet with a radius only 50% larger than the Earth […]
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Another Cool Thing for NASA PAO To Ignore
NASA’s robotic sub readies for dive into Earth’s deepest sinkhole, Carnegie Mellon University“Bill Stone, leader of the NASA-funded Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer (DEPTHX) mission, said the 2.5-meter-diameter vehicle performed “phenomenally […]
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Today's NASA YouTube Feature: The GeneSat-1 Journey
Editor’s note: Late last year, NASA ARC’s GeneSat-1 was launched from Wallops Flight Facility. This small satellite was unqiue in many ways for a NASA project – it’s small size […]