Scientists say caves on Mars and icy moons may host microbial life and serve as future habitats for astronauts to be sent to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. graphic illustrating astrobiology, showing simple microbes against a backdrop of stars. Astrobiology is the field of science ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The claim: NASA just hired 24 theologians to assess how the world would react to discovery of extraterrestrial life The prospect ...

In 1971, NASA’s Mariner 9 entered orbit around the planet Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to ever successfully orbit another planet. By the end of its mission in 1972, the orbiter mapped 70 ...

A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of starlight suppression needed for future space observatories to pick out very ...

The Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in astrobiology and planetary science with the research ...

What is astrobiology? Breaking it down, you see the word “astro” and you immediately relate it to “space”, now you see the word “biology” and you can guess that it means “life”. Putting them together ...

A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific ...

Most exoplanet hunters chase biosignatures the way bird dogs chase the scent of a quail. But in a talk at the European Astrobiology Institute’s recent BEACON 25 conference in Reykjavik, astrophysicist ...

Interstellar fireworks in the giant nebula NGC 3603 is a prominent star-forming region in the Carina spiral arm of our galaxy, about 20,000 light-years away. Discovered by Sir John Herschel in 1834, ...

NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan told the House Science Committee Sept. 29 that an updated astrobiology strategy is nearly completed. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — A long-delayed strategy to guide NASA’s ...

Having a baby in space may require a bit more direction, with new Adelaide University research revealing the navigational abilities of sperm are negatively impacted by a lack of gravity. Researchers ...