Ancient Meteorite Found in the Sahara Holds Secrets About Mars’ Watery Past
In 2022, a strange rock was found in the Sahara Desert, and now a new analysis reveals that…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds Water Returned to the Same Place on Mars at Least Three Times
Credit: Unsplash. NASA’s Perseverance rover has found evidence that the same patch of Jezero Crater was soaked not…
Rainstorms billions of years ago may have created habitable hotspots on Mars
A new global model suggests ancient Mars did not receive prebiotic formaldehyde evenly. Rainfall and atmospheric water vapor…
Scientists Thought Mars’s North Polar Ice Was 25% Dust. They Were Way Off
When NASA’s Mars Phoenix mission successfully sampled ice from the Martian arctic regions, it made astrobiological history. This…
Scientists Thought Venus Was Too Acidic for Complex Chemistry. It May Actually Be Weirdly Hospitable
Acid clouds: This is not just a genre of house music someone ten years older than you, or…
NASA Finds Earth Microbes Could Hide in the Moon’s Deep Shadows
Shadows near the Moon’s south pole may create temporary refuges where microbes carried by astronauts can withstand otherwise…
Perseverance Finds Organic Carbon Preserved Just Beneath the Martian Surface
The Perseverance rover on Mars inspects a rock dubbed Cheyava Falls with the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman…
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…
Advancing the search for technosignatures
Schwieterman, E. W. et al. Astrobiology 18, 663–708 (2018). Article ADS Google Scholar Wright, J. T. et al.…
The chemistry of habitable oceans in the Solar system
Persistent liquid water is generally considered a prerequisite for planetary habitability1,2. For all known life, which is to…
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…