You’re an anaerobic microbe sunbathing on a Martian beach billions of years ago listening to the small waves hit the shoreline as you take in the perchlorates in the Martian
You’re an anaerobic microbe sunbathing on a Martian beach billions of years ago listening to the small waves hit the shoreline as you take in the perchlorates in the Martian
The POLARIS experiment undergoes ground-based testing ahead of integration with the MISSE Flight Facility outside the ISS. Credit: Aegis Aerospace and the U.S. Government An international team is sending microbes
Habitable Zone diagram for the Ross 318 system. The green band indicates the Conservative Habitable Zone boundaries from Kopparapu et al. (2013). The orange star marks Ross 318; the violet
StructureMASST Editor’s note: As we expand outward from Earth to other worlds we are almost certainly going to encounter things we did not expect to find – things that are
Artist’s concept of a brown dwarf, larger than planets such as Jupiter, but not massive enough to become a star. The known brown dwarf population doubled after citizen scientists scoured
In today’s dizzying world of near-infinite everyday choices — whether it’s toothpaste brands, sports drinks, dog kibble, or streaming services — the value of our choices seems diluted to insignificance
NASA’s Perseverance rover pauses along the western rim of Mars’ ancient Jezero Crater in a striking new image, taking in sweeping rocky cliffs and windswept terrain stretching across the Red
Methyl Carbamate — WIkipedia Glycine-the simplest amino acid-has remained undetected in the interstellar medium despite decades of sensitive searches, motivating alternative approaches to constrain its astrochemical origin. A promising strategy
One of the core tenets of science fiction has always been the unknown, both the promise of mankind exploring vast new frontiers and the dangers of encountering life forms we
On Earth, the Large Hadron Collider can smash atoms together and accelerate particles to near light speeds — but in space, there are high-energy cosmic rays with over 10 million






