PROVIDENCE, R.I. — State and local officials around the U.S. are rolling back social-distancing rules again after an abortive effort over the summer, allowing bars, restaurants and gyms to open. Fans are gathering mask-free at games. President Donald Trump is holding crowded indoor rallies. While some Americans may see such […]
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BOSTON (AP) — Two computer hackers have been indicted on charges that they defaced websites across the U.S. in retaliation to the killing of Iran Gen. Qassem Soleimani, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The men, whom authorities believe to be living in Iran and the Palestinian territories, are accused of hacking […]
Elon Musk wants to settle humans on Mars with his rocket company SpaceX. Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, wants a trillion people living in space. But the chief executive of one private space company is approaching space exploration differently, and now aims to play a part in the search for life […]
WASHINGTON — The discovery of a molecule in the atmosphere of Venus associated with life could boost the prospects for both government and private missions to the planet. In a paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy Sept. 14, a group of astronomers reported the discovery of the molecule phosphine […]
Dr Clara Sousa Silva of the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology (MIT) said: “The discovery raises many questions, such as how any organisms could survive. “On Earth, some microbes can cope with up to about five percent of acid in their environment—but the clouds of Venus are almost entirely made of […]
The detection of phosphine gas in the clouds of Venus has surprised scientists, who are now wrestling with a big question: Could it be a sign of alien life? New research published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy detailed the recent discovery of the gas as well as its possible […]
Planet Venus: The phosphine is detected at mid-latitudes It’s an extraordinary possibility – the idea that living organisms are floating in the clouds of Planet Venus. But this is what astronomers are now considering after detecting a gas in the atmosphere they can’t explain. That gas is phosphine – a […]
A false-color image of Venus taken in ultraviolet light JAXA/ISAS/Akatsuki Project Team (CC-BY) By Sid PerkinsSep. 14, 2020 , 11:00 AM Scientists have detected an unstable and unexpected gas in Venus’s atmosphere that, on Earth, is commonly produced by some microbes. The find could be a sign of life in […]