Perseverance Finds Complex Organic Matter on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered the most extensive evidence yet of complex organic molecules on Mars, detecting macromolecular…
Consciousness is Not Exclusive to Earth’s Biology, Philosophers Argue
University of California, Riverside’s Professor Eric Schwitzgebel and University of Lisbon postdoctoral researcher Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness…
Europa life theory: Study explores whether Earth microbes reached Jupiter’s icy moon |
Europa has long occupied a special place in discussions about extraterrestrial life. Beneath its fractured shell of ice…
Could Earth Have Sent Life To Venus? New Study Explores ‘Panspermia’ As A Possible Explanation
While this theory implies a possible origin, the presence of life on Venus is not confirmed. If life…
Quote of the Day by Carl Sagan: ‘The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena…’
Carl Sagan’s work in astronomy is often associated with unlocking the grand mysteries of the universe and the…
Astronomers Create Catalogue of Habitable-Zone Rocky Exoplanets
Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission and the NASA Exoplanet Archive, astronomers at Cornell University have identified 45…
DNA’s Building Blocks May Have Arrived from Space, Asteroid Ryugu Samples Suggest
Samples returned by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases —…
Mars Organics Can’t Be Fully Explained by Geological Processes Alone, NASA Study Says
Known non-biological sources, from meteorites to surface chemistry, fall short of accounting for organic compounds detected by NASA’s…
Biologists ‘Resurrect’ 3.2-Billion-Year-Old Enzyme | Sci.News
A team of researchers led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison has reverse-engineered a primordial nitrogen-fixing enzyme, illuminating how…
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…
NASA’s Hubble glimpses 3I/ATLAS again. See image of interstellar comet
New 3I/ATLAS images from NASA and the European Space Agency suggest the interstellar comet is active as it…
What did NASA find on Bennu? ‘Space gum,’ sugars needed for life
Samples from the asteroid Bennu are providing scientists with clues about how life may have started in our…