Feature Stories

Presence of methanol could explain amount of organic material available for life.

The mission is ending with some great prospects for life.

Scientists discuss options for finding life outside our solar system.

Earth-Life Science Institute in Japan a place where scientists put their heads together.

Microbes in hot springs capture energy with low-energy types of oxidants.

If chemical energy is life’s coin and water is life’s marketplace, there may be a swift economy alive and well beneath the icy shell of Saturn’s brightest moon.

Sunlight activates molecules to form complex building blocks for life.

Ocean chemistry became favorable to macro-organisms.

Hundreds of visionaries from planetary science, astrophysics, engineering, and other disciplines came together last week at NASA headquarters to break conceptual ground on humanity’s future in space.

Researchers from NASA and the University of London have discovered what may be the world’s oldest fossil to date.