Detecting DNA in space
Researchers, in a step toward analyzing Mars for signs of life, find that gene-sequencing chip can survive space radiation.
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Researchers, in a step toward analyzing Mars for signs of life, find that gene-sequencing chip can survive space radiation.
Simulations based on GRAIL data show how gravitational anomalies developed early in lunar history.
Potentially habitable planets are slightly larger than Earth.
$200 million project will launch telescopes to perform full-sky search for transiting exoplanets.
MIT physicist and AMS spokesman Samuel Ting presents results via webcast.
In 41st annual Killian Lecture, Maria Zuber describes looking deep into the moon’s interior to chart its early history.
Massive lava flows may have given rise to two distinct rock types on Mercury’s surface.
200 high-school students participate in MIT’s annual Zero Robotics competition.
The very first stars may have turned on when the universe was 750 million years old.
Twin spacecraft create a highly detailed gravity map of the moon, finding an interior pulverized by early impacts.
Ice and organic material may have been carried to the planet by passing comets.
A meteorite found in Antarctica holds evidence of a once-active dynamo on Vesta.
Curiosity is the most ambitious planetary rover mission ever, but it’s just one of the many exploratory projects JPL is undertaking.
Findings suggest the surface of Saturn’s largest moon may have undergone a recent transformation.
What to do in the event of an asteroid streaking toward Earth? Activate the asteroid ‘fire drill.’