While NASA’s much-lauded Space Launch System stands ready for its maiden flight later this month with the goal of sending…
The search for life—even ancient life—on Mars is trickier than we thought. In a recent study published in the journal…
The building blocks of life can, and did, spontaneously assemble under the right conditions. That's called spontaneous generation, or abiogenesis.…
A new study by Arjun Berera, of the University of Edinburgh, has indicated that space dust may be a possible…
In just a few months, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is going to die, crashing into the planet Saturn. Let's look back…
Hunters of alien life may have a new and unsuspected niche to scout out. A recent paper submitted by Associate…
[/caption] If civilization-forming intelligent life is rare in our Milky Way galaxy, chances are we won't hear from ET before…
Exobiology (same thing as astrobiology) is about life in space (on other planets, and moons; in other solar systems): where…