Amy Shira Teitel
Rocks From Mars
[/caption] Scientists studying life on Mars got a late Christmas present this year: confirmation that meteorites found in Morocco in…
Who Owns Space History, the Public or the Astronauts?
[/caption] Former NASA astronaut Jim Lovell came under fire last week when he sold a personal memento from his tenure…
India has Red Planet Fever
[/caption] Mars fever has gripped India. In a recent report from the Planetary Science and Exploration conference that was held…
Astronomers Find Saturn’s Possible Cosmic Doppelgänger
[/caption] By analyzing the silhouette of an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star some 420 light years from…
Scientists Find Trio of Tiny Exoplanets
[/caption] NASA’s Kepler mission has detected no shortage of planets; more than a thousand candidates were discovered in 2011, a…
Does Life on the Seafloor Predict Life on Other Worlds?
[/caption] Scientists have recently discovered communities of previously unknown species living on the seafloor near Antarctica clustered around hydrothermal vents.…
Missions that Weren’t: One-Way Mission to the Moon
[/caption] When President Kennedy promised America a lunar landing in 1961, he effectively set the Moon as the finish line…
Slower than Light Neutrinos
[/caption] Earlier this year, an international team of scientists announced they had found neutrinos -- tiny particles with an equally…
What if the Earth had Two Moons?
The idea of an Earth with two moons has been a science fiction staple for decades. More recently, real possibilities…
Why Do We Live in Three Dimensions?
[/caption] Day to day life has made us all comfortable with 3 dimensions; we constantly interact with objects that have…