Science News for Kids » extraterrestrial life http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org Publication of the Society for Science & the Public Wed, 22 May 2013 22:09:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Martian microbes, maybe http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/03/billions-of-years-ago-mars-could-have-been-teeming-with-very-small-martians/ http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/03/billions-of-years-ago-mars-could-have-been-teeming-with-very-small-martians/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:10:21 +0000 Stephen Ornes http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/?p=16101 The first sample of Martian rock drilled by the rover Curiosity. Scientists say the rock provides evidence that microbes could have once lived on Mars. Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS Permission: press photo, NASA public domain

Billions of years ago, Mars could have been teeming with very small Martians]]> The first sample of Martian rock drilled by the rover Curiosity. Scientists say the rock provides evidence that microbes could have once lived on Mars. Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS Permission: press photo, NASA public domain

Billions of years ago, Mars could have been teeming with very small Martians]]> http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/03/billions-of-years-ago-mars-could-have-been-teeming-with-very-small-martians/feed/ 0 Ice on Mercury http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/12/ice-on-mercury/ http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/12/ice-on-mercury/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:55:16 +0000 Stephen Ornes http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/?p=15168 This image of Mercury’s north pole region shows areas in shadow (red) according to new MESSENGER data and the location of bright spots (yellow) that are likely exposed ice deposits. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Arecibo Observatory

MESSENGER spacecraft provides evidence for frozen water on planet closest to sun]]> This image of Mercury’s north pole region shows areas in shadow (red) according to new MESSENGER data and the location of bright spots (yellow) that are likely exposed ice deposits. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Arecibo Observatory

MESSENGER spacecraft provides evidence for frozen water on planet closest to sun]]> http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/12/ice-on-mercury/feed/ 0