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Extra terrestrial life in our solar system?

Posted in Science on 12th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

At least ten planets, moons and dwarf planets have liquid oceans in our solar system and they may have at least microbial life.

Complex organic molecules discovered in infant star system

Posted in Featured, Science on 10th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

Hints that prebiotic organic chemistry is universal.

150 billion cubic meters of water ice on Mars in glaciers covered by dust

Posted in Science on 10th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

Studies have now calculated the size of the glaciers and thus the amount of water. It is the equivalent of all of Mars being covered by more than one meter of ice.

Multiple studies address riddles of the Moon's origin

Posted in Science on 9th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

The Moon may have been formed by a collision between Earth and an object that was strikingly similar in composition to our own planet.

Water: There's so much of it in our solar system and beyond, says NASA

Posted in Science on 8th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

Hunting for habitable worlds would mean looking for where there is water. However, the Universe may very well be awash with the stuff.