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…
Mars’s Ancient Clay Holds the Same Organic Molecules That May Have Sparked Life on Earth
A large group of scientists, including astrobiologists at the University of Florida, geophysicists and engineers at NASA’s Jet…
A Century-Old Mystery in Venus’s Clouds Just Got Even Stranger
Scientists have tightened the search for the mysterious material darkening Venus’s clouds, and the answer may be stranger…
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…
Advancing the search for technosignatures
Schwieterman, E. W. et al. Astrobiology 18, 663–708 (2018). Article ADS Google Scholar Wright, J. T. et al.…
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…
NASA Moon Base Could Become Earth’s First Defense Against Alien Microbes
Scientists say the Moon could serve as Earth’s first biological shield by housing a secure facility for quarantining…
Ancient Martian rocks preserve complex organic carbon
Scientists using NASA’s Perseverance rover have detected complex organic carbon in rocks from Jezero Crater, adding to…