On October 14th, 2024, NASA's Europa Clipper mission launched atop a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the…
One of the more daunting questions related to astrobiology—the search for life in the cosmos—concerns the nature of life itself.…
How common are Earth-like exoplanets—also called exo-Earths—and which exoplanetary systems should we target to find them? This is what a…
I have always found Mariana’s Trench fascinating, it’s like an alien world right on our doorstep. Any visitor to the…
Finding planets that already have, or have the ingredients for intelligent life is a real challenge. It is exciting that…
The search for extrasolar planets is currently undergoing a seismic shift. With the deployment of the Kepler Space Telescope and…
In the next decade, space agencies will expand the search for extraterrestrial life beyond Mars, where all of our astrobiology…
Since time immemorial, humans have gazed up at the stars and wondered if we’re alone in the universe. We have…
A new study considers how future astrobiology studies could search for life "as we don't know it" on exoplanets.
A team of physicists have discovered that the environment of a molecular cloud in interstellar space can support the existence…