Astrobiology

Thirteen years ago, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was orbiting Saturn, not yet through its first mission, when a…

The rapid recovery and analysis of a meteorite that fell onto a frozen lake in Michigan two years ago is…

A bombshell study from last month made the extraordinary claim of finding a type of molecule on Venus associated…

Since the 1990s, astronomers have catalogued more than 3,000 exoplanets using a fairly basic detection technique…

Astrobiologists have identified 24 exoplanets that aren’t just potentially habitable, they’re potentially superhabita…

This week, a team of researchers announced they have discovered traces of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus—a gas…

Our minds were blown yesterday as a team of researchers reported on the discovery of phosphine in the atmosphere of…

In a major announcement, a team of scientists is claiming to have detected trace amounts of phosphine in the…

A team searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence has put together an Exotica Catalog, which lists every…

Single-celled organisms like Escherichia coli and yeast can grow and survive in an atmosphere like the kind…

In preparation for the upcoming Perseverance mission to Mars, astrobiologists performed a dry run to see if the new r…

We live inside a spiral galaxy, but one school of thought suggests oval-shaped elliptical galaxies are most likely to…

For years, a dedicated team of experts has manually sifted through troves of rejected Kepler data in hopes of…

Surprising quantities of bacteria have been found living in clay-rich rocks under the Pacific seafloor. The…

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, is one of the last places we think about when considering the potential for…

Researchers found evidence of sugar molecules in primitive meteorites, according to a new study. Now, if you please,…

Satellite observations of Jezero crater on Mars, the chosen landing site for NASA’s next rover mission, have…

NASA has worked hard to prevent microbes from hitching rides on our spacecraft and spreading around the solar…

In a recent interview with the Telegraph, NASA chief scientist Jim Green said it’s possible we’ll soon find evidence…

For the first time ever, astronomers have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a rocky exoplanet. Intriguingly,…