A batch of DNA molecules that seem to have originated in space
Posted by admin in Science, Space on 10. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
In what appears to be seriously big news from a team of NASA-funded researchers, scientists have found evidence that some building blocks of DNA–including two of the four nucleobases that make up our genetic code–found in meteorites were created in space, lending credence to the idea that life is not homegrown but was seeded here [...]
Markings point to the existence of liquid water on the martian surface today
Posted by admin in Space on 05. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
All week we’ve heard rumblings from NASA that big Mars science news would drop today, and sure enough that news is big: NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has quite possibly found liquid water flowing on the surface of Mars. Not water that flowed millennia ago, or water that once flowed but is now permanently ice. This [...]
Herschel telescope finds oxygen molecules in space
Posted by admin in Space on 02. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
Oxygen Molecules in the Orion Nebula Astronomers are finding more and more of life’s key ingredients in deep space, from amino acids to a huge water reservoir, and now molecular oxygen. Teams working with the Herschel Space Telescope have confirmed finding O2 in the Orion nebula, the first time scientists have been able to pinpoint [...]
Universe’s largest water reservoir discovered in black hole
Posted by admin in Space on 26. Jul, 2011 | 0 Comments
Lurking in a distant supermassive black hole there exists a reservoir of water as big as 140 trillion oceans, the largest repository of water in the universe and 4,000 times more than exists in the Milky Way. Two teams of astronomers discovered this mass of water 12 billion light years away, where it manifests as [...]
Let’s reconstitute humans from genomes launched into space!
Posted by admin in Future, Space on 17. Jun, 2011 | 0 Comments
Fragmented human genomes could be shipped toward the stars and reconstructed upon their arrival, spawning the first interstellar citizens and avoiding the problems of long-distance space survival. That’s just one idea — proposed by genome pioneer J. Craig Venter — emerging from the field of dreams seeded by DARPA’s 100-Year Starship project. DARPA is collecting [...]
