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For almost a decade, astronomers have tried to explain why so many pairs of planets outside our solar system have an odd configuration—their orbits seem to have been pushed apart by a powerful unknown mechanism. Yale researchers say they’ve found a possible answer, and it

To unlock the secrets of how prebiotic clutter transitioned to life, organic chemist Krishnamurthy utilizes a discipline called “systems chemistry.”

Each of NASA’s international astrobiology partners take a different tack in looking for the answer to the question of whether there is life elsewhere in the Universe. A creative, multi-pronged investigation is necessary with such a complicated problem.

The centre, which was established in 2011 and began operations in 2013, includes philosophers and social scientists, as well as engineers, biologists and physicists.

Spain’s Centro de Astrobiología (Center of Astrobiology, or CAB) is known for its Martian weather research, as well as its work studying microbes in extreme environments.

The long quest for liquid water on Mars may have finally met with success.

NASA's InSight lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, 300-million-mile journey from Earth.

On the evening of Thursday, Nov. 15, NASA's Kepler space telescope received its final set of commands to disconnect communications with Earth.

The essential building blocks of life have been discovered emanating from the subsurface ocean of one of Saturn’s moons.

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology may have made headway in helping determine the origin of life by identifying three different molecules that self-assemble to form a molecular structure with features characteristic of modern RNA.