Counting Titan's Craters
Impact craters found on Titan could help scientists determine the age of this Earth-like moon and its potential for life.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Microbes found in natural asphalt lake
(PhysOrg.com) -- A lake of natural hot liquid asphalt in Trinidad and Tobago has been found to be teeming with microbes despite the toxic environment. The lake, aptly named Pitch Lake (since pitch is the old ...
Apr 21, 2010 |
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Life Without Water?
On Saturn’s giant moon Titan, it is so cold that water is frozen as hard as granite. And yet there is a complete liquid cycle of methane and ethane. Scientists wonder whether there could also be life.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Catalyst could power homes on a bottle of water, produce hydrogen on-site (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- With one bottle of drinking water and four hours of sunlight, MIT chemist Dan Nocera claims that he can produce 30 KWh of electricity, which is enough to power an entire household in the developing ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 05, 2010 |
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NASA's Kepler Mission Celebrates One Year in Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- One year ago this week, NASA's Kepler mission soared into the dark night sky, leaving a bright glow in its wake as it began to search for other worlds like Earth.
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Mar 04, 2010 |
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Researchers Rediscover the Structure of Water
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource has found the molecular structure of water to be more complex than recently thought, suggesting that molecular models ...
Feb 26, 2010 |
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Scientists find signs of liquid water in Saturn's moon
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists working on the Cassini mission to Saturn have found evidence of liquid water on the planet's icy moon Enceladus, suggesting the possibility of life below its surface.
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Feb 08, 2010 |
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By tracking water molecules, physicists hope to unlock secrets of life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Compared to any other liquid on Earth, water behaves in strange and unexpected ways, yet its unusual properties enable and protect life as we know it. By tracking individual water molecules in a "supercooled" ...
Feb 08, 2010 |
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Researchers offer explanation for the differences between Ganymede and Callisto moons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Differences in the number and speed of cometary impacts onto Jupiter's large moons Ganymede and Callisto some 3.8 billion years ago can explain their vastly different surfaces and interior ...
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Jan 24, 2010 |
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Water Planets
Of the roughly 420 extra-solar planets now known, about a dozen are in the newly named category of "super-earths," planets whose masses are in between of two and about fifteen earth-masses.
Jan 22, 2010 |
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Water still has a few secrets to tell
(PhysOrg.com) -- We are used to thinking of water as a substance with relatively few secrets left. Its basic structure has been studied by high school students for decades, and water is considered essential ...
Jan 21, 2010 |
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Deep heat powers once-in-a-billion-year volcanoes on icy moon
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by Macquarie University planetary scientist Dr Craig O’Neill and US colleague Francis Nimmo has found the answer to an apparent cosmic contradiction.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2010 |
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Goddard scientist's breakthrough given ticket to Mars
The quest to discover whether Mars ever hosted an environment friendly to microscopic forms of life has just gotten a shot in the arm.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 05, 2010 |
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Spectacular Mars images reveal evidence of ancient lakes (w/ Video)
Spectacular satellite images suggest that Mars was warm enough to sustain lakes three billion years ago, a period that was previously thought to be too cold and arid to sustain water on the surface, according ...
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Jan 04, 2010 |
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Icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter may have conditions needed for life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists once thought that life could originate only within a solar system's "habitable zone," where a planet would be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface. ...
Dec 15, 2009 |
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