History
History of Astrobiology. Read about Life in Early Solar System, Life’s Building Blocks Form In Replicated Deep Sea Vents, Hunt for 9th Planet Revealing Extremely Distant Solar System Objects, Three Potentially Habitable Worlds Found Around Nearby Ultracool Dwarf Star, Is Enceladus’ Ocean friendly to life and more.
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Feb 26, 2020Research suggests that sulfur in the oceans may not have played as large a role as expected in delaying the evolution of more complex life.
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Jan 1, 2018Mutant enzymes evolved organo-silicon molecules new to science.
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Dec 31, 2017Russian and U.S. scientists explore mission to Venus' sulfur clouds to look for life.
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Dec 30, 2017Extremely low atmospheric pressures not a game changer for life.
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Dec 29, 2017ESO's HARPS instrument finds Earth-mass exoplanet around Ross 128.
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Dec 28, 2017NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a blistering hot planet outside our solar system where it "snows" sunscreen.
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Dec 27, 2017Seasonal dark streaks on Mars that previously were described as possible signs of flowing water have steep slopes that are better matches to dry flow processes.
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Dec 26, 2017If you were standing on TRAPPIST-1D looking out at the other six planets in your system, they would look large - something like our moon does to us - but be moving much faster.
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Dec 25, 2017Far from the Sun's warmth, distant moons have tidal energy that could fuel life.
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Dec 24, 2017The slow rate at which phosphorus was recycled in Earth’s ancient oceans could have stalled the oxygenation of the atmosphere.