Washington, D.C.— An international team of astronomers, including five Carnegie scientists, reports the discovery of two new planets orbiting a very old star that is near to our own Sun. One of these planets orbits the star at the right distance to allow liquid water to exist on its surface, a key ingredient to support […]
Heat from a volcano erupting beneath an immense glacier would have created large lakes of liquid water on Mars in the relatively recent past. And where there’s water, there is also the possibility of life. A recent paper by Brown University researchers calculates how much water may have been present near the Arsia Mons volcano […]
A Ketchikan man chose to jump into the waters of Refuge Cove instead of going to jail on Wednesday, but was eventually apprehended anyway according to the trooper dispatch. 25-year-old Vincent R. Morin was contacted by the Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers while aboard his family’s fishing boat at Refuge Cove in Southeast […]