UK’s £3 Million Bet Could Help NASA Find Life on Nearby Planets
A conceptual design of the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Credit: NASA A £3 million investment could help secure a…
Europa’s Hidden Ocean May Be Locked Beneath a Frozen Wall
Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons, has drawn scientific interest because its frozen surface may hide a global…
In July 2028 NASA launches a car-sized, 1,000-pound nuclear drone toward Saturn’s moon Titan, a six-year, $3.35 billion trip to a world where the air is four times denser than Earth’s, gravity is one-seventh as strong, and flying is the easy part.
The upcoming Dragonfly mission is unlike any planetary mission NASA has ever attempted. Instead of another slow-moving rover,…
50 years ago, did NASA’s Viking landers destroy the Martian life they were searching for?
Nearly half a century after NASA’s Viking landers touched Mars, one question shadows their experiments: Did they miss…
An atmosphere has been detected for the first time around a rocky exoplanet
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An artist’s illustration showing a blue planet and two stars. Astronomers have detected an…
Scientists Challenge a Fundamental Assumption About Consciousness
Could consciousness exist without a brain like ours? Philosophers at the University of California, Riverside argue that consciousness…
NASA Moon Base Could Become Earth’s First Defense Against Alien Microbes
Scientists say the Moon could serve as Earth’s first biological shield by housing a secure facility for quarantining…
Why Mars May Remain Uninhabitable for Centuries
Realistic image of a completely terraformed Mars. Credit: Daein Ballard Making Mars Earthlike is not impossible in principle,…
Scientists Just Found All 5 Genetic “Letters” of DNA and RNA on an Asteroid
Ryugu sample in its return capsule. Credit: JAXA The discovery of all five nucleobases on Ryugu strengthens the…
New analysis finds signs of life on Mars actually came from Earth
A pair of stubborn molecules, prized because they can survive deep time, just passed an important Mars test…
NASA Finds New Way Earth May Have Received Elements Needed for Life
NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary for…
Astronomers discover a super-Earth that may have an atmosphere orbiting a red dwarf
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing an exoplanet and two red stars. Astronomers have recently discovered a…