"Life on Earth May have Started Almost Instantaneously" --UCLA (Today's Most Popular)
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/201...pular.html
EXCERPT: [...] The UCLA scientists have found evidence that life likely existed on Earth at least 4.1 billion years ago -- 300 million years earlier than previous research suggested. The discovery indicates that life may have begun shortly after the planet formed 4.54 billion years ago. [...] The new research suggests that life existed prior to the massive bombardment of the inner solar system that formed the moon's large craters 3.9 billion years ago. "If all life on Earth died during this bombardment, which some scientists have argued, then life must have restarted quickly," said Patrick Boehnke, a co-author of the research and a graduate student in Harrison's laboratory....
Pluto's Large Nitrogen Ice 'Sea' Probably Formed from Giant Impact, Scientists Say
http://www.americaspace.com/?p=90543
EXCERPT: “We did not predict that a small planet like Pluto could still be active and would not have completely cooled off,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons Principal Investigator....
These Spidery 'Veins' On Mars Are Just Plain Weird
http://www.space.com/31583-spider-mars-v...photo.html
EXCERPT: This photo, captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in February 2009, shows spidery troughs on the Red Planet likely formed by the sublimation of carbon dioxide. Nobody knows yet whether or not Mars has ever hosted life, but the Red Planet itself looks strangely alive in a newly released NASA photo....
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/201...pular.html
EXCERPT: [...] The UCLA scientists have found evidence that life likely existed on Earth at least 4.1 billion years ago -- 300 million years earlier than previous research suggested. The discovery indicates that life may have begun shortly after the planet formed 4.54 billion years ago. [...] The new research suggests that life existed prior to the massive bombardment of the inner solar system that formed the moon's large craters 3.9 billion years ago. "If all life on Earth died during this bombardment, which some scientists have argued, then life must have restarted quickly," said Patrick Boehnke, a co-author of the research and a graduate student in Harrison's laboratory....
Pluto's Large Nitrogen Ice 'Sea' Probably Formed from Giant Impact, Scientists Say
http://www.americaspace.com/?p=90543
EXCERPT: “We did not predict that a small planet like Pluto could still be active and would not have completely cooled off,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons Principal Investigator....
These Spidery 'Veins' On Mars Are Just Plain Weird
http://www.space.com/31583-spider-mars-v...photo.html
EXCERPT: This photo, captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in February 2009, shows spidery troughs on the Red Planet likely formed by the sublimation of carbon dioxide. Nobody knows yet whether or not Mars has ever hosted life, but the Red Planet itself looks strangely alive in a newly released NASA photo....