Extraterrestrial Life
Here are Four Ways JWST Could Detect Alien Life
There are many ways that the James Webb Space Telescope could search for life. Here are four promising ones.
Nitrous Oxide, aka “Laughing gas”, Could be an Indication of Life in an Exoplanet
A team of astronomers have proposed to hunt for signs of life by looking for the signature of nitrous oxide…
It Appears That Enceladus is Even More Habitable Than we Thought
It takes a watery world to support life as we know it, but it also takes a special bit extra.
Shallow Pockets of Water Under the ice on Europa Could Bring Life Close to its Surface
New research from Standford University has found an explanation for the most prominent features on Europa, based on similar featured…
Why Would an Alien Civilization Send Out Von Neumann Probes? Lots of Reasons, says a new Study
A new study takes a look at Von Neumann probes and asks the really important questions: "why would aliens send…
A Technique to Find Oceans on Other Worlds
A new study shows how next-generation observatories could directly observe oceans on exoplanets, which could narrow the search for extraterrestrial…
To Take the Best Direct Images of Exoplanets With Space Telescopes, we’re Going to Want Starshades
The Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS) has released a special edition of papers dedicated to educating the…
New Technique to Search for Life, Whether or not it’s Similar to Earth Life
A new tool for measuring the complexity of molecules is able to identify those that must have formed in the…
The Same Technology Could Search for Microbes in Mars Rocks or Under the ice on Europa
NASA's SHERLOC and WATSON, two spectrometers designed to look for biosignatures, could answer if there's life on Mars on inside…
Scientists Have Re-Analyzed Their Data and Still See a Signal of Phosphine at Venus. Just Less of it
The team that detected phosphine in Venus' atmosphere has reexamined the data and confirmed their discovery, with a few caveats…