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Below you will continuously find updated news of the AAS RA: News reports about scientific and research discoveries, activities or publications by AAS RA members, meetings, chats, research and discussion tendencies, background information etc. More Information about these topics and the Ancient Astronaut Theory can be found in the pages of Legendary Times, the AAS RA's official Journal. Click here to find out more.

11/20/2008

	Moon craters may hold traces of early life Ice deposits hidden in the Moon's darkest craters might contain traces of early life from meteorites blasted off the Earth by asteroids billions of years ago. Link: Moon craters may hold traces of early life

11/19/2008

	‘Star Trek’ force field could help protect real astronauts in space British, Portuguese, and Swedish physicists have come up with a strong magnetic shield that may be able to protect astronauts from dangerous space radiation as they make extended missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Better get Scotty to engineer the project! Link: ‘Star Trek’ force field could help protect real astronauts in space

11/18/2008

	An Interstellar Mission Scenario " .. After hurtling across interstellar space for a century or longer, a comparatively small, low-mass probe decelerates into orbit around a planetary system that had been carefully selected over decades of Earth-based observations. ..." Link: An Interstellar Mission Scenario Link: First Contact: Interstellar Mission to an Inhabited Planet

11/17/2008

	Egypt Unveils Discovery of 4,300-Year-Old Pyramid Egypt's antiquities chief unveils discovery of new pyramid believed to belong to ancient queen.. Link: Egypt Unveils Discovery of 4,300-Year-Old Pyramid Link: In the Shadow of a Long Past, Patiently Awaiting the Future

11/16/2008

	Is Earth at the heart of a giant cosmic void? According to George Ellis, a leading cosmology theorist based at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and others, our uncertainty about galaxy distances allows an interesting possibility. The distribution of matter could look the same in all directions, but vary with distance from us. In particular, we might be sitting in the middle of a "void" - a vast spherical bubble in an otherwise homogeneous universe. Link: Is Earth at the heart of a giant cosmic void?

11/15/2008

	Strange Martian Landforms Are Paleo Climate Clues One of the most fun and fascinating aspects of space exploration is discovering geological processes and terrain different from those found on our home planet, says Matt Balme, who is leading a team that's decoding Martian mystery landscapes known as Transverse Aeolian Ridges or TARs. Link: Strange Martian Landforms Are Paleo Climate Clues

11/14/2008

	DNA legacy of ancient seafarers Scientists have used DNA to re-trace the migrations of a sea-faring civilisation which dominated the Mediterranean thousands of years ago. Link: DNA legacy of ancient seafarers Link: Ancient Phoenicians Left Genetic Markers Around Mediterranean

11/13/2008

	3000-year-old 'Spider God' temple found in Peru A 3,000-year-old adobe temple featuring an image of a spider god was recently found in the Lambayeque valley on Peru's north coast. Link: 3000-year-old 'Spider God' temple found in Peru Link: Image of a spider god