News, Research and Announcements

News, Research and Announcements for Decmeber 2006
29 December 2006 The weirdest science stories of 2006 28 December 2006 How can we find alien life? (Alien debate 7 of 7) Mars rovers: on the roll to new targets NASA Mars team teaches old rovers new tricks to kick of year four True fakes: scientists make simulated lunar soil Why I love the Mars rovers 27 December 2006 Astrobiology Magazine, European Edition Europe's planet-hunting space telescope launched NASA's top exploration and discovery stories of the year Orion hardware reviewed for human asteroid flight 26 December 2006 Moonbase: in the dark on lunar ice 25 December 2006 Strange and alien forms (Alien debate 6 of 7) 22 December 2006 Lineages of acidophilic Archaea revealed by community genomic analysis White dwarf hints at our solar system's end 21 December 2006 Debating life's boundaries (Alien debate 5 of 7) How much does SETI require robots? NASA Genesat-1 experiment generates excellent data Shotgun sequencing finds nanoorganisms 20 December 2006 Carl Sagan's influence on my life NASA experiment on Genesat-1 satellite excites scientists Next up, the COROT space telescope 19 December 2006 Europe looks forward to COROT launch 18 December 2006 NASA and Google to bring space exploration down to Earth Study finds the air rich with bacteria The basic rules of the universe (Alien debate 4 of 7) 16 December 2006 Cracking Enceladus Making the search simple Plucking comet dust from Stardust collectors 15 December 2006 Comet 81P/Wild 2 under a microscope Comets as toolkits for jump-starting life NASA advisor on the search for life receives Medal of Freedom NASA looking for future explorers for educational challenge NASA selects undergraduate teams to fly on "Weightless Wonder" NASA study finds new kind of organics in Stardust mission Nitrogen fixation at 92°C by a hydrothermal vent archaeon Stardust findings suggest comets more complex than thought What is life? (Alien debate 3 of 7) 14 December 2006 A resilient robot Comets as toolkits for jump-starting life First comet dust on Earth reveals clues to solar system New theory behind "Cold Faithful" on Saturnian moon Transient liquid water near an artificial heat source on Mars Washington University lab first to find "real" stardust from Stardust mission 13 December 2006 Answering Darwin's dilemma Mars Express scientists find a different Mars underneath NAI Newsletter NASA spacecraft read layered clues to changes on Mars University of Texas astronomer explores planet formation around our galaxy's smallest, most abundant stars 12 December 2006 Production of hydrogen peroxide in the atmosphere of a Snowball Earth and the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis 11 December 2006 Don Pettit goes to Antarctica Life as we don't know it: the dialectic game (Alien debate, 2 of 7) 10 December 2006 Honing in on a fresh target 9 December 2006 Galactic Darwinism 8 December 2006 Launching the alien debates (Alien debate, 1 of 7) 7 December 2006 From hot springs to rice farms, scientists reveal new insights into the secret lives of Archaea Russia wants to join NASA moon program 6 December 2006 Detailed look at the next Mars lander Geologists provide new evidence for reason behind rise of life in Cambrian Period NASA images suggest water still flows in brief spurts on Mars 5 December 2006 Moon is a way station for NASA Space Station seen as portal to Moon, Mars and beyond 4 December 2006 A hitchhiker's guide to astrobiology NASA Mars orbiter photographs Spirit and Vikings on the ground NASA unveils global exploration strategy and lunar architecture New clues to how sex evolves Why are we here? Theoreticians debate the fundamentals 3 December 2006 Finding our origin in a meteorite 2 December 2006 A flood of Mars photos 1 December 2006 A shadow biosphere Bacterial community structure in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, Chile Diverse responses to UV-B radiation and repair mechanisms of bacteria isolated from high-altitude aquatic environments Organic globules in the Tagish Lake meteorite: remnants of the protosolar disk

29 December 2006