50 years ago, scientists found amino acids in a meteorite
Amino acids in a meteorite — Science News, December 5, 1970 [Researchers] present evidence for...
China is about to collect the first moon rocks since the 1970s
For the first time in almost half a century, scientists are going to get their...
Farming on Mars will be a lot harder than ‘The Martian’ made it seem
In the film The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) survives being stranded...
Chemical reactions high in Mars’ atmosphere rip apart water molecules
Mars’ water is being skimmed off the top. NASA’S MAVEN spacecraft found water lofted into...
Doubts over a ‘possible sign of life’ on Venus show how science works
It was one of those “big, if true” stories. In September, scientists reported that Venus’...