If the periodic table listed the elements in order of their importance to life, then oxygen might bully its way…
In the search for potentially life-supporting exoplanets, liquid water is the key indicator. Life on Earth requires liquid water, and…
In the quest to understand how and where life might arise in the galaxy, astronomers search for its building blocks.…
Twenty thousand years ago, a star in the constellation Cygnus went supernova. Like all supernovae, the explosion released a staggering…
Earth was once entirely molten. Planetary scientists call this phase in a planet's evolution a magma ocean, and Earth may…
New technologies utilizing material found in space are constantly popping up, sometimes from smaller companies and sometimes from larger ones.…
Finding oxygen in an exoplanet's atmosphere is a clue that life may be at work. On Earth, photosynthetic organisms absorb…
Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate in the search for life. The frozen moon has a subsurface ocean, and…
Viking’s biochemistry experiments have been among the most hotly debated scientific results of all time. The lander famously collected samples…
In situ resource utilization (ISRU) is still a very early science. Therefore, the technology utilized in it could be improved…