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…
From City Lights to Moonlight: NASA Training Shows How Urban Parks Can Connect Communities with Space Science
When you think about national park and public land astronomy programs, you might picture remote locations far from…
Ceres once habitable according to new NASA study
This image of Ceres approximates how the dwarf planet’s colors would appear to the eye. This view of…
Our Galaxy’s Sweet Spot for Life Is Bigger Than We Thought
New simulations suggest the Galactic Habitable Zone isn’t fixed: when stars migrate across the Milky Way, the odds…
Life on Earth May Be Thanks to a Lucky Planetary Collision
Artistic illustration of the early formation phase of the Solar System. At that time, the young Sun (in…