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…
Mars’ North Polar Ice Is Much Cleaner Than Scientists Thought
Taken by the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera, this view of Korolev crater near the north pole…
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…
Peptides in Venus’ clouds could form life-giving shapes
View larger. | Japan’s Akatsuki orbiter took this stunning ultraviolet image of Venus on December 23, 2016. A…
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…
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…
Detection of a four-carbon sugar in interstellar space
McGuire, B. A. 2021 census of interstellar, circumstellar, extragalactic, protoplanetary disk, and exoplanetary molecules. Astrophys. J. Supp. Series…
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…