There is no place you can go on Earth that hasn't been colonized by bacteria, from the bottom of the…
Sometimes, the easy calculations are the most interesting. A recent paper from Balázs Bradák of Kobe University in Japan is…
If we could detect a clear, unambiguous biosignature on just one of the thousands of exoplanets we know of, it…
Does life appear independently on different planets in the galaxy? Or does it spread from world to world? Or does…
On October 19th, 2017, astronomers with the Pan-STARRS survey detected an interstellar object (ISO) passing through our Solar System for…
The search for potentially habitable planets is focused on exoplanets—planets orbiting other stars—for good reason. The only planet we know…
Can life spread throughout a galaxy like the Milky Way without technological intervention? That question is largely unanswered. A new…
A remarkable microbe named Deinococcus radiodurans (the name comes from the Greek deinos meaning terrible, kokkos meaning grain or berry,…
'Oumuamua caused quite a stir when it visited our Solar System in 2017. It didn't stay long, however, and when…
A new study by a team astrobiologists shows how certain types of extreme bacteria thrive on meteors, which could reveal…