extraterrestrial water

Europe is Sending a Drill to the Moon to Search for Water

The Moon has been a source of interest of late largely due to the focus on getting humans back to…

2 months ago

Citizen Scientists Find Fifteen “Active Asteroids”

Nature often defies our simple explanations. Take comets and asteroids, for example. Comets are icy and have tails; asteroids are…

8 months ago

Water Found on the Surface of an Asteroid

Our Solar System is a collection of objects from planets and moons to comets and asteroids. It's thought there are…

9 months ago

China Reveals How it’s Planning to Search for Water Ice at the Moon’s South Pole

It’s been a big week for Chinese space exploration. First a successful test flight of Zhuque-3 and this week we…

9 months ago

What’s Up With Ceres’ Mysterious Bright Spots? Reply Hazy, Ask Again Later

The crater that contains those puzzlingly bright spots on Ceres may harbor an equally puzzling haze. Or not. The hints of haze…

9 years ago

Defining Life I: What are Astrobiologists Looking For?

How can astrobiologists find extraterrestrial life? In everyday life, we usually don’t have any problem telling that a dog or…

10 years ago