Bruce Dorminey
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Detecting Proof Of Life In Mars Samples May Be Well-Nigh Impossible
Detecting definitive signs of life in putative Mars microfossils either in situ or brought back to Earth for lab analysis will likely be a near-term impossibility, a prominent astrobiologist told me at the recent Europlanet Science Congress in Granada, Spain. → Read More
Melting Glaciers Can Even Shift Earth’s Poles, Says Study
Melting glaciers and poor land-based regional water management likely caused shift in Earth’s poles, says study. → Read More
5 Surprising Discoveries From NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover
A look back at the Mars Curiosity rover’s science legacy thus far. → Read More
How Covid-19 Is Changing Big-Time Astronomy
Astronomers try to salvage conference meetings and observational astronomy in the midst of this global pandemic. → Read More
Light Pollution Is Bigger Threat To Astronomy Than Satellite Constellations
International Dark Sky Week runs April 19-26. → Read More
Why Planet Earth Needs A Starfleet Academy
The case for a present-day ‘Starfleet Academy’ as a global, non-governmental hothouse incubator for space exploration. → Read More
NASA Selects Dozen U.S. Companies For Moon To Mars Partnerships
NASA selects key commercial partnerships to further its new Moon to Mars strategy. → Read More
Astronomers Get Serious About Alien Technosignatures
The hunt for alien technosignatures heats up. → Read More
Here's How A National Space Lottery Might Solve NASA's Funding Problems
A space lottery where proceeds support space and astronomy research and exploration might just be the winning ticket. → Read More
Former NASA Rocket Scientist On Why We're Still Going Nowhere Fast
Interstellar propulsion breakthroughs will require research that is motivated by more than mere hype, says former NASA breakthrough propulsion physicist. → Read More
Astronomers Are Tracking Four Potential Interstellar Objects Now In Our Outer Solar System
Two astronomers assert interstellar asteroids within our solar system may be rather common. As for Oumuamua, the bizarre first-confirmed interstellar object now on its way back out of the solar system, Harvard astrophysicist Abraham Loeb still thinks it could be an alien artifact of some sort. → Read More
Habitable Exoplanets Are Likelier Around Lower Metallicity Stars
Surprisingly, Trappist-1 type planetary systems, known as compact and multiple planet systems, seem to preferentially form around low-metallicity stars. That is, stars that have lower ratios of iron and other elements heavier than helium in their atmospheres. → Read More
Mars May Be Loaded With Dissolved Subsurface Oxygen
Oxygen beneath Martian surface could allow for extant life, say geochemists. Findings could be a game-changer for both planetary science and future Mars exploration and colonization, they say → Read More
French Astronomer Aims For Space-Based Hypertelescope
A French astronomer wants to put a low-cost hypertelescope in a solar orbit. We’re talking a million tiny mirrors and a diameter spanning almost ten times that of Earth. → Read More
5 Mercury Puzzles That ESA's BepiColombo May Solve
Our planet Mercury is largely forgotten because it’s so hard to reach. But with the launch of the Bepi-Colombo orbital space probe, this hot little world may soon give up more of its secrets. Here are 5 conundrums that remain. → Read More
Astronomers Track Interstellar 'Visitor' Back To Four Possible Star Systems
A team of astronomers have used data from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia satellite to track Oumuamua --- the strange, comet-like visitor from interstellar space --- back to four potential home stars. → Read More
New Neil DeGrasse Tyson Book Tackles Technological Intersection Of Astronomy And War
Provocative new book details the curious relationship between the realms of military and astronomical technology. Neil deGrasse Tyson talks candidly to me about the realities of funding astronomy and astrophysics. → Read More
5 Questions That Make Astrobiologists Squirm
Three high-profile astrobiologists ponder the imponderables concerning the essence and frequency of life in the cosmos. → Read More
ESA's Mars Express Finds Evidence For Salty Lake Under Mars' South Pole
Mars' water history gets even more interesting with the potentially game-changing discovery of a whole liquid salty water lake underneath its South Pole. → Read More
Our Moon May Have Briefly Harbored Life, Say Astrobiologists
Incredibly, our early Moon may have harbored some form of microbial life in fleeting surface pools of water, two astrobiologists contend. → Read More