Building Blocks of Life Found Around Young Sun-like Star “The astronomers found molecules of glycolaldehyde — a simple form of sugar — in the gas surrounding a young binary star, […]
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NASA GSFC Dinosaur Track Location: "sensitive but unclassified"
Likely footprint of spiky dinosaur has NASA’s Md. campus on cloud nine, Washington Post “A scalloped mini-crater with four pointy toe prints pressed into ruddy rock, the putative dinosaur track […]
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Mars, Everest, and Tricorders
Ocean Optics Spectrometers Land Safely on Mars “Three Ocean Optics instruments have completed their eight month journey to Mars to study soil composition as part of the ChemCam mission. The […]
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NASA's Big Arsenic-Based Life Claim Was Wrong
Absence of Detectable Arsenate in DNA from Arsenate-Grown GFAJ-1 Cells, Science GFAJ-1 Is an Arsenate-Resistant, Phosphate-Dependent Organism, Science Discovery of an arsenic-friendly microbe refuted, USA Today “The discovery of an […]
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SETI Undeterred
Why I’m not giving up on the search for extraterrestrial life, Jill Tarter, Washington Post “Our 50 years of searching is equivalent to scooping a single glass of water from […]
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NASA's Out of Date Search for Life on Mars
Figueroa Rules Out Another NASA Mars Rover Before 2020, Space News “Figueroa reiterated previous statements that his team will consider only missions that contribute in some way to an eventual […]
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Lets Try and Answer The Big Questions
Looking For Life on Mars – Without Fiddling Around “We really want to address the big questions on Mars and not fiddle around,” says Dirk Schulze-Makuch, whose earlier proposals have […]
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NASA Needs an Astrobiology Fact Checker
Viking Data Suggests Life?, Universe Today via NASA’s Astrobiology Magazine “Researchers from universities in Los Angeles, California, Tempe, Arizona and Siena, Italy have published a paper in the International Journal […]
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NASA Is Becoming Boring
James Cameron Completes Record-Breaking Mariana Trench Dive “Now “the science team is getting ready for the returned samples,” expedition astrobiologist Kevin Hand, of NASA, said in an email. … Because […]
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Practicing On Earth How To Find Life Elsewhere
Astrobiologist Dale Andersen’s Field Reports: Lake Untersee, Antarctica (Gigapixel panorama) “Those early ecosystems resulted in the formation of luxuriant microbial mats with a variety of morphologies which are seen today […]