Astronomers have identified a new class of exoplanet they believe could be a candidate for the search for extra-terre...
Methane on Enceladus might hint at alien life In the vast ocean beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, ...
The first mining experiments in space have revealed that microbes can efficiently extract elements from rocks in zero...
One of the goals of the next generation of giant telescopes, now rapidly nearing completion, is to scour the nearby h...
The question of whether or not we are alone in the Universe has always fascinated me, but when I was a student the id...
Japanese researchers say they have found single-celled creatures living in tiny cracks inside volcanic rocks taken fr...
NASA has selected the mission that will study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms – known a...
Mars’s mantle may contain multiple distinct reservoirs of mineral-bound water preserved from the planet’s early histo...
Scientists believe they have discovered a simple protein that started all life 3.5 to 2.5 billion years ago, publishi...
Could the Earth be a life-exporting planet? That’s the curious question examined in a recent paper written by Harvard...
It has long been an unspoken tenet of astrobiology that in the absence of confirmed alien technologies it’s necessary...
Although NASA’s new Dragonfly mission to Titan will be the first return to the Saturn system to follow up on the disc...
