The search for life is largely limited to the search for water. We look for exoplanets at the correct distances…
Ever since the Cassini spacecraft first spied water vapor and ice spewing from fractures in Enceladus’ frozen surface in 2005,…
Measuring the atmospheric pressure of a distant exoplanet may seem like a daunting task but astronomers at the University of…
Could this meteorite show evidence of ancient water and life on Mars? That's one possibility raised in a new paper…
While exoplanets make the news on an almost daily basis, one of the biggest announcements occurred in 2012 when astronomers…
Before there was life as we know it, there were molecules. And after many seemingly unlikely steps these molecules underwent…
With the recent discovery that Europa has geysers, and therefore definitive proof of a liquid ocean, there’s a lot of…
Over the past few years, the field of astrobiology has made great strides. With missions such as Kepler making exoplanet…
Using a phone to search for signs of life? Yeah, we can get behind that. One group of researchers has…
Are Earthlings really Martians ? Did life arise on Mars first and then journey on rocks to our planet and…