A new analysis of a Martian rock that meteorite hunters plucked from an Antarctic ice field 30 years ago this month reveals a record of the planet's climate billions of years ago, back when water likely washed across its ...
Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2014
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Two and a half billion years ago, single-celled organisms called cyanobacteria harnessed sunlight to split water molecules, producing energy to power their cells and releasing oxygen into an atmosphere that had previously ...
Other
Nov 20, 2014
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Almost 2,000 extrasolar planets have been discovered to date and this number is constantly increasing. Yet, we still know little about these alien worlds, especially their atmospheres. The atmospheres of terrestrial exoplanets ...
Astronomy
Oct 23, 2014
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NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has obtained its first observations of the extended upper atmosphere surrounding Mars.
Space Exploration
Sep 25, 2014
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Astronomers searching the atmospheres of alien worlds for gases that might be produced by life can't rely on the detection of just one type, such as oxygen, ozone, or methane, because in some cases these gases can be produced ...
Astronomy
Sep 11, 2014
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(AP)—NASA plans to make oxygen—a key ingredient of rocket fuel—on Mars early next decade.
Space Exploration
Aug 1, 2014
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A team of researchers working at China's Kuanti formation has unearthed the largest known example of a jawed vertebrate from the early Dvonian, commonly known as the Silurian period. In their paper published in Scientific ...
Scientists investigating one of the greatest riddles of the Earth's past may have discovered a mechanism to help determine how oxygen levels in the atmosphere expanded to allow life to evolve.
Earth Sciences
Jun 9, 2014
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The way that algae and plants respond to light has been reinterpreted based on results from experiments studying real-time structural changes in green algae. Under particular lighting conditions during photosynthesis, the ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 27, 2014
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Plasma medicine is a new and rapidly developing area of medical technology. Specifically, understanding the interaction of so-called atmospheric pressure plasma jets with biological tissues could help to use them in medical ...
Plasma Physics
Mar 25, 2014
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