This Research Topic targets interdisciplinary themes arising from the growth of exoplanetary research and biogenicity—the origin and distribution of life in the universe. By integrating insights from ...

ABSTRACT: Life exists in the universe and therefore the astrophysical properties of the universe must be such that they allow the origin of life. We connect astrobiology and astrophysics via one ...

Oct. 7, 2024 — NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life -- with ...

If we’re going to live on Mars we’ll need a way to grow food in its arid dirt. Researchers think they know a way. Once upon a time, water flowed across the surface of Mars. Waves lapped ...

Virginia has trended blue for a while now — no Republican candidate has won the state since 2004. But does that mean the ...

Jaycee Horn on the Panthers' defensive stops vs. the Saints. Carolina picked up its second win of the season on Sunday, a ...

A father and daughter team based in the U.S. have decoded a mock "alien signal" beamed from ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter a year ago — but the meaning of the extraterrestrial message remains a ...

Like Earth, Mars was formed about 4.5 billion years ago, but its early surface was very different than today's. Mars' surface then had high rates of meteorite and asteroid impacts from the period ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has new insights into how Mars might have changed from a potentially habitable, water-rich planet to an absolutely uninhabitable desert. The search for life on Mars goes ...

Two European Mars orbiters spied a variety of cryptic surface features poking up through melting ice across the Red Planet's south pole as spring rolled into the region. The European Space Agency ...

The Caltech team calculated how far down this habitable zone would be, based on the dust content and structure of the ice. If dust makes up more than about 1% of the ice, it would be too shaded ...