Dec 21 2010
Meteorite Holds Amino Acid Surprise
Amino acids, the building blocks of life, are forming in environments never thought possible.
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Nov 16 2010
Success! Hayabusa Captured Asteroid Dust
Overcoming all the odds, it's been confirmed that the Japanese asteroid mission successfully returned samples of asteroid Itokawa to Earth.
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Nov 02 2010
Life on Mars Could Stem From Earth
If life on Mars is ever found, it may turn out to be less alien than you might expect.
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Oct 28 2010
Bushels of Buckyballs Found in Space
The cages of carbon may be the FedEx of space, transporting other molecules and atoms through the cosmos.
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Oct 25 2010
The Meteorite Men on Friday News Feedbag
On this week's Friday News Feedbag, Geoffrey Notkin and Steve Arnold, aka Science Channel's Meteorite Men stop by the studio to talk about hunting for meteorites all over the world. If this is your first exposure to the Friday News ...
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Sep 15 2010
Did the Greeks Spot Halley’s Comet First?
After some fascinating astronomical detective work, researchers have (possibly) found the first documented proof of a sighting of Halley's Comet two centuries earlier than Chinese astronomers.
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Sep 13 2010
Grains of ‘Star Stuff’ Found in Meteorite
One of the most mind-blowing revelations to come from astronomy is that, as Carl Sagan so succinctly put it, "We are star stuff." Now scientists have sound the stuff of supernovae in a meteorite sample.
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Sep 13 2010
Lunar Bridge To Nowhere
We’ve found the astronomical equivalent of the "bridge to nowhere."
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Sep 09 2010
Mars Lander May Have Detected, Then Destroyed Organics
The Viking mission on Mars may have destroyed compounds that make biology possible while trying to detect them.
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Aug 23 2010
Solar System Older Than Once Thought
A meteorite pushes back the age of the solar by almost 2 million years.
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