Astrobiology

Where Are All the Aliens? The Fermi Paradox

Consider this. The Universe is enormous. There are as many as four-hundred billion stars in our galaxy: the Milky Way.…

12 years ago

How to Plant a Garden on Mars — With a Robot

Editor's note: This guest post is written by Louisa Preston, an Astrobiologist and Planetary Geologist. She is a TED Fellow,…

12 years ago

Cosmic Explosion Left Imprint in Fossil Record

Ancient iron-loving bacteria may have scooped up evidence of a nearby supernova explosion 2.2 million years ago, leaving an extraterrestrial…

12 years ago

Hydrogen Peroxide Could Feed Life on Europa

According to research by NASA astronomers using the next-generation optics of the 10-meter Keck II telescope, Jupiter's ice-encrusted moon Europa…

12 years ago

Habitable Earth-Like Exoplanets Might Be Closer Than We Think

Size might matter when it comes to stars having habitable environments for planets, and in this case smaller might be…

12 years ago

‘Ultimate’ Prebiotic Molecules Found in Interstellar Space

The building blocks of life could have their beginnings in the tiny icy grains that make up the gas and…

12 years ago

Less Than 1% of Exoplanet Systems Have Intelligent Life, Researchers Say

Recent findings say that Earth-like exoplanets could be all around us in our cosmic neighborhood. But how many would be…

12 years ago

Vote ‘Curiosity’ as TIME Person of the Year

Caption - I Need You ! Vote for ‘Curiosity’ as TIME magazine Person Of The Year. NASA’s new Curiosity Mars…

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