A new “super-Earth” planet has been discovered that may have an earth-like climate that could support life has been discovered…
Sometimes we all need a little perspective, both of our own complexity compared to the tiny atoms and microbes in and around us, but also when compared to the sheer scale of the universe that we can observe.
Earlier this week, a Swiss-based team searching for planets outside our solar system (exoplanets) published a paper in Nature announcing…
The discovery of water on the moon made headlines in 2009, and a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience last week suggests that this water may have come, at least in part, from the sun.
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.