The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission is over. What a great ride. An international team of researchers has discovered compelling evidence that the magnetite crystals in the martian meteorite ALH84001 are of biological origin. At nearly the same time, the team of researchers that originally found evidence of fossil life in ALH84001 has examined two more martian rocks, and published another paper lending support to the hypothesis. Scientists Find Evidence For Wet, Slushy Ganymede, Jupiter's Largest Moon - interesting new findings from Voyager and Galileo data.
Galaxy clusters are essentially stable following initial star formation, says a Canadian researcher.
We'll be trying this again, since the potential payoff is really cool. The two telescopes of the 2MASS all-sky infrared survey have finished collecting data. The innermost structure of the donut-shaped dust cloud surrounding a massive young star and the first glimpse of its previously unknown companion star was seen by applying new technology to the Keck telescope. In coming years, we hope to be doing even better planet-hunting with Keck than we are now. All rights reserved.