By using habitable zone and stellar evolution models, astrobiologists from the University of East Anglia have estimated that habitable conditions on Earth will be possible…
New research presented at the European Planetary Science Congress at UCL examines whether life forms would be able to survive an impact with the surface…
A team of scientists from the University of Leeds has discovered that chemical reactions once thought to be ‘impossible’ in the coldness of space can…
New climate model research from astronomers at the University of Washington suggests that planets orbiting cooler stars may be more likely to remain ice-free than…
In a step toward analyzing Mars for signs of life, researchers from MIT, Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital are working on a DNA-sequencing microchip that…
A newly published study details the discovery of a high concentration of boron in a Martian meteorite that far exceeds that of any previously reported…
Using the Keck II Telescope, scientists analyzed data in the near-infrared range of light from Europa, finding that peroxide is widespread across much of the…
In a new study, physicists look at the conditions necessary for the formation of carbon and oxygen to form carbon-based life in the universe. Life…
Using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory, researchers have the best evidence yet that salty water from the liquid ocean beneath Europa’s frozen exterior…
Goddard’s Cosmic Ice Lab is one of a few laboratories where researchers study the chemistry of cosmic ice, reproducing reactions in ice from almost any…
A new study examines the probability of life existing on extrasolar moons, identifying tidal heating as a criterion for exomoon habitability and devising a theoretical…
A newly published study examines the “habitable zone” that scientists believe might play a role in the survival of extreme life forms, like lichens and…
Newly published research from scientists at ASU suggests that the host star’s chemical makeup has a substantial impact on the evolution of the host star…
Using sodium gas signatures, which have been recognized as being associated with type Ia supernovae, a team of scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science…
By analyzing the amino acids in meteorites, NASA and University scientists have developed one possible explanation for why all known life uses only left-handed versions…
NASA’s Kepler mission discovered a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one and now astronomers from Penn State have precisely…
Scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science discovered that a 4.5 billion year old meteorite, which is believed to be from Mars, contains reduced carbon…
Tidal heating, which is basically gravitational heating of a planet via tides, suggests that the number of habitable planets could be roughly half of what…