Where does life come from?
Are we really just stardust?
And is there life elsewhere than on this planet?
A new form of science poses all these questions and tries to bring the answers – astrobiology like you’ve never seen it before.
Astrobiology Tries to Unravel the Origins of Life
October 2, 2012
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A Crescent Mars
October 2, 2012
The sight of the crescent Moon hanging in the sky above Earth is a familiar one, but this image taken by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft as it passed by the Red Planet in February 2007 captures the rare view of a skinny slice of Mars.
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A thin crescent Mars (white) captured by Rosetta’s OSIRIS (Optical, Spectrocopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System) …
In space, they say, no one can hear you scream.
Nobody ever said anything about singing, though. A NASA spacecraft has just beamed back a beautiful song sung by our own planet. Play the audio.
A NASA spacecraft has recorded eerie-sounding radio emissions coming from our own planet. These beautiful “songs of Earth” could, ironically, be responsible for the … Read the rest of this article
Opportunity Mars Rover Investigates Matijevic Hill
October 1, 2012
NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity, well into its ninth year on Mars, will work for the next several weeks or months at a site with some of the mission’s most intriguing geological features.
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Rock fins up to about 1 foot (30 centimeters) tall dominate this scene from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The component images were …
More on the Amazing September 21 Fireball
September 28, 2012
This report comes in from Terry Moseley of the Irish Astronomical Association (IAA):
Reports are still coming in from all over Ireland about the amazing multiple fireball which travelled over the UK & Ireland on 21 September. The object first became visible over Holland, travelled across the North Sea, across England, across the Irish Sea, and then right across Ireland!…Read the rest of this article
Catch a Glimpse of Asteroid Pallas
September 28, 2012
Surprisingly, most amateur astronomers have never seen as asteroid. But this week Asteroid 2 Pallas, the second one discovered, and the second biggest, will make a very close pass to the mag. 3.5 star Iota Ceti (also sometimes known as Deneb Kaitos Shemali, or Deneb Kaitos Al Shamaliyy) on 29 September. Pallas will be magnitude 8.3, so almost 5 … Read the rest of this article
NASA Mars Rover News: Ancient Streambed News Conference
September 28, 2012
NASA hosted a news conference on September 27, 2012 to present science findings from the Curiosity rover’s mission to Mars’ Gale Crater.
Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind’s deepest-ever view of the universe. Called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, the photo was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The … Read the rest of this article
Ancient Streambed Found on Mars by Curiosity Rover
September 28, 2012
NASA’s Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving. There is earlier evidence for the presence of water on Mars, but this evidence – images of rocks containing ancient streambed gravels — is the first of its kind.
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NASA’s Curiosity rover found evidence for an ancient, flowing …
New Comet C/2012 S1 Could Dazzle in 2013
September 27, 2012
There’s buzz around the newly-discovered Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) which is currently out beyond the orbit of Jupiter. It looks like the comet is heading for a very close encounter with the sun next year and could be one of the brightest comets seen in living memory.
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This image shows the newfound comet C/2012 (ISON) as seen by the Remanzacco …
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