Webb Space Telescope Might Be Able To Detect Other Civilizations by Their Air Pollution
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched last December, has been slowly powering up its instruments and unfurling its sunshield, and is now in the…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched last December, has been slowly powering up its instruments and unfurling its sunshield, and is now in the…
Research team from Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy finds clue to possible extraterrestrial origin of peptides. Researchers from the…
Deeper understanding of Earth’s atmosphere could help us identify signs of life beyond our solar system. When did the Earth reach oxygen levels sufficient to…
In the search for “potentially-habitable” extrasolar planets, one of the main things scientists look at is stellar activity. Whereas stars like our own, a G-type…
How NASA in Silicon Valley Will Use Webb to Study Distant Worlds NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is getting ready to give us the best…
As far as we know, carbon is critical to life. So anytime we detect a strong carbon signature somewhere like Mars, it could mean biological…
Lake is dominated by bacteria from a single ‘extremophile’ genus. A few specialist microbes survive conditions analogous to those of Mars’ early history, reports a…
The type of carbon detected is associated with biological processes on Earth. Curiosity scientists offer several explanations for the unusual carbon signals. After analyzing powdered…
NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars on August 6, 2012, and since then has roamed Gale Crater taking samples and sending the results back home…
Martian meteorite’s organic materials origin not biological, formed by geochemical interactions between water and rock. The search for life on Mars can teach us about…
The idea of interplanetary travel has tantalizingly emerged on the horizon and is no longer restricted to science fiction. We are having preliminary discussions about…
A remarkable link between the number of nearby exploding stars, called supernovae and life on Earths has been discovered. Evidence demonstrates a close connection between…
During long portions of the past 2.4 billion years, the Earth may have been more inhospitable to life than scientists previously thought, according to new…
Researchers at the University of Oxford uncover the importance of iron for the development of complex life on Earth – which also may hint at…
One of the strangest things in the cosmos might be – us. Among the thousands of planets confirmed to be in orbit around other stars,…
A new study shows it’s theoretically possible. The hypothesis could be tested soon with proposed Venus-bound missions. It’s hard to imagine a more inhospitable world…
The ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted significant amounts of water at the heart of Mars’ dramatic canyon system, Valles Marineris. The water, which…
Report led by MIT scientists details a suite of privately-funded missions to hunt for life on Earth’s sibling planet. With multiple rovers landed and a…