Astronomy Current Events is Macroevolution.net's page covering astronomy news relating to biology. Most of the news on this page relates to the field of astrobiology. Other astronomy articles relevant to biology may also be included. From time to time, this page provides links to interesting astronomy news stories on other websites.
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Existence of life on Mars virtually ruled out. Sorry, Edgar!
New study says Mars may have been arid to support life for last 600 million years. Full article →
Nucleotide bases from space
NASA has reported finding nucleotide bases in meteorites. View video →
Kepler-22b: A habitable planet
NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Full article →
The solar flare rumor
Will a giant solar flare destroy the earth in 2012? Despite the rumors, NASA says no.
Full article →
Big Bang Theory — Flawed?
Carnegie astronomers have found the most distant cluster of galaxies known. They appear to us as they did nearly 11 billion years ago. But they look like closer, ancient galaxies. So what's up?
Full article →
City lights could reveal E.T. civilization
In a paper submitted to the journal Astrobiology, Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and Edwin Turner (Princeton University) suggest a new technique for finding aliens: look for their city lights. Full article →
Take a walk on the Mars side
NASA's new tool, HiView, offers the best way to take a personal, virtual hike through any of thousands of square miles of Mars. Full article →
Alien life on Earth?
Scientists are looking for alien life right here on Earth. They are also wondering how organisms from our planet would fare if transferred to other worlds. Full article →
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Observing the center of the Milky Way at ESO’s Paranal Observatory
using the laser guide star facility at Yepun, one of the four Unit Telescopes
of the Very Large Telescope. (Enlarge Image). Credit: ESO/Yuri Beletsky
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A Non-news article from Astronomy Current Events:
Facts about Earth
Repeated catastrophes of worldwide scope, from asteroid impacts to submersion of continents, have taken place over geological time. With these events, again and again, mass extinctions have occurred. Full article →
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