... prior detections of organic carbon on Mars' surface. While the discovery is one of the most tantalising searches yet to indicate that biological processes were (or maybe still are) responsible for these organic materials, it is not definitive proof...
...located in the same region and indeed it could be indicative that the lower-altitude hexagon is influencing what happens up ...impressive as its northern counterpart. This dichotomy of designs indicates that the ringed-planet’s two poles behave very ...
... zapping the molecules so any surge in concentration means it must have been released recently. However, this too is no indication of life as it simply might have been produced millions, even billions of years ago, laying dormant underground and...
... of these signals (oxygen, carbon and dust) have been detected. The youthfulness of this galaxy in its prime is indicated by its apparent lack of star-forming material. The research team, headed by Takuya Hashimoto, a postdoctoral researcher at the...
... has an eccentricity of zero; for example, the eccentricity of the Earth’s orbit is currently about 0.0167. Higher numbers indicate more elliptical orbits and at 3.2, the newly found comet’s orbit can be described as hyperbolic. This highly eccentric...
... Cassini orbiter spacecraft. Lopes and colleagues work indicates that Titan’s geology depends strongly on latitude.... distinction between these units and where they are found on Titan indicates that a variety of processes must be acting on the surface ...