What was it exactly that ‘kick-started’ life on the Earth? Perhaps an unknowable question — but new research is now adding further support to idea that life on Earth was kickstarted by some of the natural processes that occur at some of the alkaline hydrothermal vents at the bottom of world’s oceans. The new research
Celestial centaurs — the small sub-planetary bodies that are found orbiting the sun somewhere between Jupiter and Neptune — have remained something of a mystery since their discovery. What exactly are they? Asteroids? Comets? Well new research done using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) may finally be providing an answer to those questions —
What does the Earth look like from deep space? From Saturn? On July 19th NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will be taking the first-ever natural-color image of the Earth as seen from the Saturn system. This will also be the first time that Cassini’s highest-resolution camera was used to photograph the Earth and the Moon. According to
Saturn’s moon Dione may possess a subsurface ocean, one which may have at one time been geologically active, new images obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft suggest. The new images are of Dione’s rather strange 500-mile-long mountain — Janiculum Dorsa. After analysis by researchers on the Cassini science team, it’s been concluded that the images suggest
