Astrobiology Mag

Hubble Pins Down Weird Exoplanet with Far-Flung Orbit A planet in an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away may offer a clue to a mystery much closer to home: a... - astrobio.net/also-in-news/h…

Building blocks of life can form long before stars New research suggest that glycine, and very likely other amino acids, form in dense interstellar clouds well before they transform into... - astrobio.net/also-in-news/b…

OSIRIS-REx and the Origin of Life In a new video from the NASA Astrobiology Program, astrobiologists Dr. Jason Dworkin and Dr. Scott Sandford explain the... - astrobio.net/news-exclusive…

Europa Glows: Radiation Does a Bright Number on Jupiter's Moon New lab experiments re-create the environment of Europa and find that the icy moon shines, even on its nightside. The effect is more... - astrobio.net/also-in-news/e…

NASA’s SOFIA Discovers Water on Surface of Moon NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the M... - astrobio.net/also-in-news/n…

Smile, wave: Some exoplanets may be able to see us, too Some exoplanets have a direct line of sight to observe Earth’s biological qualities from far, far away. - astrobio.net/also-in-news/s…

Pieces of Venus? Try looking on the moon Venus may have had an Earth-like environment billions of years ago, with water and a thin atmosphere. Yet testing such theories is... - astrobio.net/also-in-news/p…

Hints of life on Venus A rare molecule – phosphine – has been discovered in the clouds of Venus. On Earth, this gas is only made industrially, or by microbes th... - astrobio.net/alien-life/hin…

Panspermia: Clumps of bacteria could survive travel between Earth and Mars A theory, called "panspermia", supports the possibility that microbes may migrate between planets and distribute life in the... - astrobio.net/alien-life/pan…

Planetwide Storms May Have Filled Lakes, Rivers on Ancient Mars A new study is helping scientists piece together the ancient climate of Mars by revealing how much rainfall and snowmelt filled its lake... - astrobio.net/also-in-news/p…

Rogue planets could outnumber the stars An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets – planets that float in space without orbiting a sun – than there a... - astrobio.net/also-in-news/r…

Persevering to Mars: with Neil deGrasse Tyson and NASA Chief Scientist James Green In this explainer episode of "StarTalk", Neil deGrasse Tyson and NASA Chief Scientist James Green discuss the recent... - astrobio.net/alien-life/per…

Dwarf planet Ceres has reservoirs of salty water Brines may still be percolating up to the surface on Ceres today as the result of an impact that created the Occator crater 20 million... - astrobio.net/also-in-news/d…

6 Things to Know About NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter The first helicopter attempting to fly on another planet is a marvel of engineering. Get up to speed with these key facts about its plans. - astrobio.net/alien-life/6-t…

What If We Found Life On Mars? Imagine a future where the Perseverance Rover actually found definitive evidence of life on Mars. What would happen next? - astrobio.net/alien-life/wha…

"Was There Life on Mars?" UK Scientists Help NASA Answer the Question Scientists from the UK are playing a vital role in a NASA mission to Mars set to launch this Thursday (30 July). - astrobio.net/alien-life/was…

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is heading to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life, collect samples for future... - astrobio.net/alien-life/637…

"Snowball Earths" - triggered by plunge in incoming sunlight? The trigger for “Snowball Earth” global ice ages may have been drops in incoming sunlight that happened quickly, in geological terms, acc... - astrobio.net/alien-life/sno…

NASA takes first step to allow computers to decide what to tell us in search for life on Mars NASA has stepped closer to allowing remote onboard computers to direct the search for life on other planets. - astrobio.net/also-in-news/n…

Are we Alone? NASA’s What you Need to Know series tackles the questions of astrobiology. How did life begin on Earth? Does life exist beyond our home p... - astrobio.net/origin-and-evo…