Thursday, September 14, 2006

Study Holds Out Possibility of Life on Other Planets in Solar System

A comprehensive review by leading scientists about our solar system which speculates on the possibility of life on other planets has been published..........

Science Daily

Evolution of the First Galaxies

A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies around 13 billion years ago. These observations of the earliest stages in the evolution of galaxies provide new evidence for the hierarchical theory of galaxy formation--the idea that large galaxies built up over time as smaller galaxies collided and merged..........

Science Daily

Monday, September 11, 2006

Study Says Other Earthlike Planets Exist

New com­pu­ter sim­u­la­tions by as­tronomers have found that Earth-like pla­n­ets, warm and wet enough for life, should be common.

The si­m­u­la­tions fo­cused on a com­mon type of so­lar sys­tem iden­t­i­fied be­fore, fea­tur­ing pla­n­ets called Hot Ju­pi­ters. A third of these sys­tems al­so pro­duce Earth-like worlds in the com­put­er re­en­act­ments, the re­searchers said..........

World Science