News Briefs

Estudos sobre a história dos vírus na Terra podem melhorar nossa compreensão sobre a possibilidade de vida em outros lugares.

Scientists working with NASA's Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, have released the first radar images of asteroid 2004 BL86.

ESA’s Rosetta mission is providing unique insight into the life cycle of a comet’s dusty surface, watching 67P/C-G as it sheds the dusty coat it has accumulated over the past four years.

It’s application time for the NASA Office of Education Scholarship and Research Opportunities.

ESA's Mars lander, Beagle-2, was lost in 2003 when it landed on Mars. Now, it has been spotted in images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

A percepção de que a natureza do debate sobre a vida em outros mundos está para mudar fundamentalmente levou o professor de astronomia David Weintraub a começar a pensar seriamente sobre a questão de como as pessoas reagirão à descoberta de vida em outros planetas.

The year 2014 ranks as Earth’s warmest since 1880, according to two separate analyses by NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists.

A new international exhibition, "LIGHT: Beyond the Bulb," has been launched to celebrate the 2015 International Year of Light.

Scientists have discovered one of the rarest minerals on Earth in a Wisconsin impact crater.

O ambiente físico pode produzir choques repentinos para a vida do nosso planeta através do impacto de rochas espaciais, vulcões em erupção e outros eventos.

In February, NASA will hold a workshop to discuss the possibility of searching for signs of life in a plume on Europa.

Astrobiology Magazine counts down the top 10 stories of 2014.

This mini-interview comes from the SAM Science Team website at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Scientists have discovered new details about Europa and it's potential plume by re-examining data from the Cassini mission's 2001 flyby.

By studying how the structural components of RNA interact, and how the molecule performs the remarkable feat of self-assembling, scientists have uncovered new details about the chemical evolution of RNA.