Tiny NASA Spacecraft Delivers Exoplanet Mission’s First Images
With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA’s Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat,…
A Most Unusual Lake – NASA Science
Scientists estimate that Earth is home to more than 100 million lakes. Among the most unusual is Lake…
Scientists Finally Found Something Tardigrades Can’t Survive
Tardigrades are tiny, endearing, and practically invincible. As it turns out, however, not even tardigrades can survive the…
Tardigrades and water reveal potential for food growth on Mars
Tardigrades have a reputation for being nearly indestructible. These microscopic animals, often nicknamed water bears, can dry out…
Scientists use microbes on ISS to extract valuable metals from meteorites
A meteorite chip sat in a small container, bathed in liquid, while the International Space Station floated overhead.…
How The Cold Void Of Space May Have Kick‑Started Life
Even in the cold, airless regions between stars, cosmic dust grains can help stitch amino acids into short…
Powerful magnetic fields on super-Earths could boost chances of life
View larger. | This is an artist’s concept of a super-Earth with a deep magma ocean generating a…
Flight Engineers Give NASA’s Dragonfly Lift
In sending a car-sized rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will undertake an unprecedented voyage…
Researchers question methane atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1e
This is an artist’s concept of exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e, about 40 light-years from Earth. A new study urges caution…
Moss survived nine months in space outside the ISS before returning to Earth
Without a space suit a human would last seconds outside the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting Earth. But…
NASA Cassini Study Finds Organics ‘Fresh’ From Ocean of Enceladus
Researchers dove deep into information gathered from the ice grains that were collected during a close and super-fast…
Was NASA’s ‘no life on Mars’ conclusion in the 70s wrong?
View larger. | NASA’s Viking 1 lander took this photo of surrounding rocks and sand dunes on May…