Search for Life
Opportunity Blazes Through 4500 Sunsets on Mars and Gullies are Yet to Come!
The longest living Martian rover ever - Opportunity - has just surpassed another unfathomable milestone - 4500 Sols (or days)…
Hubble’s Surprising Find On Europa To Be Announced By NASA Monday
NASA will make a "surprising" announcement about Jupiter's moon Europa on Monday, Sept. 26th, at 2:00 PM EDT. They haven't…
Europa Clipper Team Braces For Bad News
Apparent uncertainty in the budget for the Europa Clipper mission could be bad news for its proponents.
Curiosity Finds Ancient Mars Likely Had More Oxygen and Was More Hospitable to Life
New chemical science findings from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity indicate that ancient Mars likely had a higher abundance of molecular…
Alien Minds Part II: Do Aliens Think Big Brains are Sexy Too?
Can we assume that aliens will evolve intelligence over the eons, and will this lead to other technological civilizations? Will…
Life On Kepler-62f?
A new study shows that there are multiple scenarios where exoplanet Kepler 62f could support life.
Bayesian Analysis Rains On Exoplanet Life Parade
It's tempting to think that life is plentiful in the Universe, if only we could locate it. But a pair…
An Earth-like Planet Only 16 Light Years Away?
A new paper concludes that a super-Earth size planet may reside in the habitable zone of a star only 16…
Opportunity Discovers Dust Devil, Explores Steepest Slopes on Mars
A “beautiful dust devil” was just discovered today, April 1, on the Red Planet by NASA’s long lived Opportunity rover…
Don’t Want Aliens Dropping By? Engage Laser Cloaking Device
Powerful arrays of lasers could hide our presence from the prying eyes of aliens.