life beyond earth
Is the Concept of a Habitable Zone Too Wide?
Exoplanets are often considered potentially habitable if they could have liquid water. But the necessities of biology set the habitability…
AI Could Help the Europa Clipper Mission Make New Discoveries!
A team of NASA scientists recently developed a series of machine learning algorithms that could help the Europa Clipper find…
NASA Selects Mission Science Instruments Searching for Habitability of Jupiter’s Ocean Moon Europa
In a major move forward on a long dreamed of mission to investigate the habitability of the subsurface ocean of…
Europa Life: Could ‘Extreme Shrimp’ Point To Microbes On That Moon?
For all of the talk about aliens that we see in science fiction, the reality is in our Solar System,…
Targeting Icy Europa: NASA Seeks Ideas To Explore Potentially Habitable Moon
What lies beneath the cracked, thick ice on the surface of Europa? NASA is hoping to fly a mission to…
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The Search for Alien Life Could Get A Boost From NASA’s Next-Generation Rocket
In three years, NASA is planning to light the fuse on a huge rocket designed to bring humans further out…
There Might Be 100 Million Planets In The Galaxy With Complex Life
What a multitude of worlds! A new study suggests that the Milky Way could host 100 million planets with complex life,…
Did This Martian Volcano Once Host Life?
Extremophiles teach us that life is found in unlikely places, which is why after looking at microbes happily living in…
Here’s One Idea Of How To Search For Life Beyond Earth
Using a phone to search for signs of life? Yeah, we can get behind that. One group of researchers has…
When We Look For Life Beyond Earth, Let’s Consider Dying Planets: Study
Bacteria. They're so resilient that they can survive just about anywhere on Earth, even in spots of extreme hot or…