Meteor bombardment 4 bln yrs ago may have made Earth more habitableWASHINGTON - A new study has suggested that large bombardments of meteorites approximately four billion years ago could have helped to make the early Earth and Mars more habitable for life by modifying their atmospheres. Former African-American astronaut to head NASAWASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama Saturday named Charles Bolden, a black ex-astronaut, to lead the US space agency into its next chapter that could take it back to the moon. Soft soil puts NASA’s Spirit in danger on MarsWASHINGTON - Reports indicate that the five wheels that still rotate on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit have been slipping severely in soft soil during recent attempts to drive, sinking the wheels about halfway into the ground on the Red Planet. NASA may abandon plans for moon baseLONDON - NASA’s acting administrator, Chris Scolese, has told lawmakers that the agency will probably not build an outpost on the moon as originally planned. Microbes in deep-sea mud volcanoes may yield clues to alien lifeWASHINGTON - Scientists have completed the first study of microbes that live within the plumbing of deep-sea mud volcanoes in the Gulf of Mexico, where conditions may resemble those in extraterrestrial environments and early Earth. Mars domes may be mud volcanoesLONDON - Scientists at NASA have identified dozens of mounds or domes in the northern plains of Mars, which they say bear a striking resemblance to mud volcanoes. Liquid saltwater on Mars detected by NASA’s Phoenix LanderWASHINGTON - A new analysis by a group of mission scientists has determined that salty, liquid water has been detected on a leg of the Mars Phoenix Lander and therefore could be present at other locations on the Red Planet. Russia’s space agency plans to build own orbital stationMOSCOW - Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will propose to the government the building of a low-orbit space station to support future exploration of the Moon and Mars, an agency official has said. |
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