‘We are all Martians’: Chemist’s otherworldly claim stirs debate, NBC “Is Benner’s story too kooky to believe? One thing’s for sure: Benner is not a kook. He was one of […]
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John Billingham
Keith’s note: NASA sources report that John Billingham has passed away. John ran the SETI Program Office when NASA used to do SETI. He also ran life science at NASA […]
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5 Habitable Zone Planets Discovered By Kepler
Kepler-62 Has Two Water Worlds Circling in its Habitable Zone “In our solar system, only one planet is blessed with an ocean: Earth. Our home world is a rare, blue […]
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Ancient Mars Could Have Supported Life
Curiosity Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars “An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists […]
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David McKay
Dr. David S. McKay Has Passed Away “Our friend and colleague, Dr. David S. McKay, passed away peacefully in his sleep in the early morning hours yesterday, 20 February 2013. […]
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Astrobiology in Antarctica
Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 26 November 2012, Lake Untersee, Antarctica “With the small 25 cm diameter sampling hole opened in the south basin of Lake Untersee, Valery, Vladimir and […]
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Methane on Mars Announcement Today? (update)
NASA Hosts Nov. 2 Teleconference About Mars Rover Progress “NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Friday, Nov. 2, to provide an update […]
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NASA's Big Arsenic-Based Life Claim Was Wrong (Update)
‘Arsenic-life’ bacterium prefers phosphorous after all, Nature “Tawfik says that he was shocked by how good the proteins were at discriminating between the essential phosphate and the deadly arsenate. This […]
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Bob Wharton
President of South Dakota School of Mines dies, PRapid City Journal “Wharton served as executive officer for the National Science Foundation’s office of polar programs, participating in 11 expeditions to […]
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Multiple Planets Circling a Binary Star
NASA’s Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars “NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. The system, known as a […]