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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Dec 23, 2016Scientists from the Dawn mission to Ceres find that the dwarf planet still holds pockets of ice from billions of years ago. -
Jan 1, 2016NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft reaches Pluto in historic encounter, beams back incredible images. -
Dec 31, 2015Even the discovery of alien microbes would be a profound shift for science. -
Dec 30, 2015New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provided the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars. -
Dec 29, 2015A renewed quest to discover intelligent life in the Universe. -
Dec 28, 2015A scientist raised questions about the latest detection of methane on Mars, suggesting that NASA’s rover could be responsible for the mysterious burp. Highly unlikely, but not impossible, said the Curiosity team. -
Dec 27, 2015A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's Cassini mission. -
Dec 26, 2015The Hubble Space Telescope picks up clues from Ganymede's thin atmosphere. -
Dec 25, 2015Strip away the atmosphere and a mini-Neptune might have a habitable core. -
Dec 24, 2015How do we keep a firewall between the planets to ensure microbes don’t cause havoc on Earth or Mars?
