Carbon is critical to life, as far as we know. So anytime we detect a strong carbon signature somewhere like…
Data from the Cassini mission keeps fuelling discoveries. The latest discovery is that Saturn's tiny moon Mimas may have an…
The Alan Hills meteorite is a part of history to Mars aficionados. It came from Mars and meteorite hunters discovered…
A lot has to go right for a planet to support life. Some of the circumstances that allow life to…
Without phosphorus, there's no life. It's a necessary part of DNA, RNA, and other biological molecules like ATP, which helps…
There's nothing easy about searching for evidence of life on Mars. Not only do we somehow have to land a…
It's another first for NASA. In early September, the Perseverance rover successfully used its robotic arm and drill to drill…
When NASA's Voyager spacecraft visited Saturn's moon Enceladus, they found a body with young, reflective, icy surface features. Some parts…
Did comets deliver the elements essential for life on Earth? It's looking more and more like they could have. At…
In September, a team of scientists reported finding phosphine in the upper atmosphere of Venus. Phosphine can be a biomarker…