Scientists Find Microbial Life Could Survive on Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has long stood out as one of the most intriguing places in the solar…
Biologists Want NASA to Build a Quarantine Lab for Alien Germs on the Moon
International concerns over Earth possibly contaminating distant worlds with microbes—or our spacecraft potentially bringing a deadly alien pathogen…
Which is the most common type of planet in the galaxy? Scientists reveal ‘super-Earths’ |
According to Kepler observations, the most abundant kind of planets in the Milky Way is the super-Earths. These…
‘Doomsday’ Asteroids Could Have Kickstarted Life on Our Planet
Doomsday meteors get a bad rap. For decades, these poor rocks have been tarnished in the press and…
Hydrogen atmospheres keep rogue moons warm for billions of years
A new study led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and Giulia Roccetti of…
Did Life Begin as Slime? Scientists Propose Novel ‘Gel-First’ Origin of Life Theory
Long before the first cell divided, before DNA carried genetic instructions, and before membranes enclosed the chemistry of…
Animal life unlikely around a third of stars in the galaxy, study says
Back to Article List While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study…
Here’s where NASA is looking for alien life in our solar system
“If you ask the question—how complicated can non-biological chemistry get?—the answer is biological chemistry, because biological chemistry comes…
Scientists discover potential water-formed karstic caves on Mars for first time
A team of scientists from Shenzhen University in China has discovered the first evidence of a new type…