A Ph.D. student and his supervisor at Imperial College London have developed a simple way to test for active life on Mars and other planets using equipment already on the

How can thermoelectric generators (TEGs) help advance future lunar surface habitats? This is what a recent study published in Acta Astronautica hopes to address as a team of researchers from

New analysis of human deep space communications suggests the most likely places to detect signals from an extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Comets are like the archeological sites of the solar system. They formed early on, and their composition helps us understand what the area around the early Sun was like, potentially

In 2022, astronomers announced the discovery of GJ 3929b. It’s a rocky planet, similar to Earth in both mass and size. Astronomers have examined the planet with the JWST and

A new theoretical study by University of Virginia astrophysicist Jonathan Tan, a research professor with the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences’ Department of Astronomy, proposes a comprehensive

The 33rd SpaceX commercial resupply services mission for NASA, scheduled to lift off from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in late August, is heading to the International Space

Using stem cells from mice, researchers from Kyoto University tested the potential damage spaceflight can have on spermatazoa stem cells and the resulting offspring. After six months aboard the ISS,