astrobiology

I discovered over the past several years that I’m not as rare as I once thought I was. There are many people out…

Ganymede likely has some special characteristics. It isn’t just Jupiter’s biggest moon, but the biggest in the…

Society’s outdated ideas about what it means to be alive are obstructing progress on some of today’s most pressing…

Next, they’ll use the spectrograph to try to find key molecules like oxygen or methane. How much they find of each…

Astrobiologist Betül Kaçar analyses a sample in a petri dish. Betul Kacar The focus of Betül Kaçar’s research is on…

After trundling around the Jezero crater for 550 Martian days, NASA’s Perseverance rover has amassed nearly half…

The rise of powerful new technology means that humanity must confront the risk of its own demise. The invention of…

“Each one of those kinds of pyrite is telling us something different about our planet, its origin, about life, and…

As wildly diverse as life on Earth is—whether it’s a jaguar hunting down a deer in the Amazon, an orchid vine…

For the past couple of decades, NASA has been investing in spacecraft to conduct up-close examinations of Mercury,…