Science news articles about 'earthlings'

BELLEVUE, Wash., Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A unique chess match began Monday with an astronaut challenging Earthlings.

... fantastic as any imagined by a science-fiction writer Scientists have picked the first crew of Earthlings to fly to another planet. Those chosen for a Mars mission to be launched in October include ...

A NASA spacecraft has been sending pithy updates from the surface of Mars to users of Twitter, a Web microblogging service — with the help of a human.

Dead microbes and skin flakes from Earthlings may scupper the search for organic molecules.

We don't have spacecraft to take us outside our solar system--not yet, at least. Still, astronomers thought they had a pretty good understanding of how our solar system formed and in turn, how others ...

... scientists--a destination tantalizingly close, yet frustratingly difficult to reach. But even though an Earthling has not set foot on the lunar surface since Apollo 17 in 1972, samples brought back ...

On Mars, snow falls in the early morning from wispy, feathery clouds that many Earthlings would recognize as cirrus clouds, a Canadian-led research team has reported.

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) -- Hundreds of earthlings turned their faces to the sky Monday to see an airplane built to launch a ship into space, watching the gleaming white craft soar overhead....

... your usual bodies of water -- instead, they're filled with liquid methane and ethane. Whereas we earthlings are used to seeing methane as a gas, anyone on Titan will tell you that their planet's low ...

NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site for Internet users to advance their knowledge about Mars while having fun at the same time.