Critical Ingredient for Life Discovered at Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus
Southwest Research Institute helped find evidence for phosphorus in the liquid water ocean beneath the moon’s icy surface. Researchers, using data from NASA’s Cassini mission,…
Southwest Research Institute helped find evidence for phosphorus in the liquid water ocean beneath the moon’s icy surface. Researchers, using data from NASA’s Cassini mission,…
Professor Tomonori Totani from the University of Tokyo posits that cosmic dust, particularly grains measuring about 1 micrometer, could carry signs of extraterrestrial life to…
A new study posits that the earliest building blocks of life on Earth, namely amino acids and carboxylic acids, may have been formed due to…
Is there life on Mars? There’s lots of pieces of evidence that say there was once a huge ocean on Mars and an atmosphere that…
A study led by the researcher Susana Iglesias of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has detected the presence of large quantities of complex organic…
Radio emissions originating about 12 light-years outside our solar system reveal possible magnetic interactions between star YZ Ceti and its prospective close-orbiting, rocky planet. Researchers…
Gas giants orbiting our sun show a clear pattern; the more massive the planet, the lower the percentage of “heavy” elements (anything other than hydrogen…
Wouldn’t discovering life on other worlds be made easier if we knew the exact locations to search? However, opportunities to collect samples or access remote…
A new NASA mission to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is due to launch in 2027. When it arrives on the giant moon in the mid-2030s,…
These in-between regions could be prime sites for liquid water. In a new study, University of California, Irvine (UCI) astronomers describe how extraterrestrial life has…
Research could provide clues to extraterrestrial life. A team of Rutgers University scientists dedicated to pinpointing the primordial origins of metabolism – a set of…
“We are living in an extraordinary moment in history,” says Didier Queloz, who directs ETH Zurich’s Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life and the Leverhulme Centre for…
A specialized laboratory at JPL, designed to eliminate the chemical influence of modern organisms, allows scientists to investigate the chemistry that may have given rise…
Tissint, a Martian meteorite that plummeted to Earth and crash-landed in Morocco over 11 years ago, is one of only five such meteorites that have…
New research reveals clues about the physical and chemical characteristics of Earth when life is thought to have emerged. About four billion years ago, the…
Enceladus, encased in a thick ice shell and surrounded by a vast ocean, is a strong contender for potentially containing extraterrestrial life. Researchers have concluded…
New research has been published on the organic analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite which crashed landed onto a driveway in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England in 2021….
Even as detailed images of distant galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope show us more of the greater universe, scientists still disagree about how…