Saturn's Titan: "A Unique World in the Solar System" -- Could Life There be Methane Based? & 4 new articles...
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At the 50th anniversary celebration of NASA on October 1, 2008, Stephen Hawking, then Newton's heir as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, was asked the question, “Are we alone?” His answer was short and simple:...  |
Saturn’s giant moon Titan has water frozen as hard as granite and Great Lakes-sized bodies of fed by a complete liquid cycle, much like the hydrological cycle on Earth, but made up of methane and ethane rather than water. Methane...  |
Researchers have discovered the genes for sodium channels that occur in animal neurons in the single-celled choanoflagellate -- an essential component of animal nervous systems that evolved prior to the evolution of those systems. "The first nervous systems appeared in...  |
Endeavour's final ascent was captured on an iPhone from a plane window by Stefanie Gordon as she flew to Florida for her mother's birthday. The photograph, that has gone viral on the web, captures the Endeavour space shuttle as it...  |
As NASA's space shuttle Endeavour delivered prototypes of fingernail-size satellites that are expected to someday travel to Saturn to the International Space Station. Endeavour's 16-day mission includes delivering robotic parts and an S-band communications antenna, as well as three small... Provided by The Daily Galaxy  |
