Tag Archives: Astrobiology
NASA confirms mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa
NASA has been talking for years about sending a probe to Europa, and now it's locking down those plans. The agency has confirmed the next phase of its Europa Clipper mission, which will send a spacecraft to the Jovian moon to determine if it could su...
The search for a habitable second Earth
Contact with extraterrestrial life would be an epochal event. Even the discovery of a simple alien organism would be transformative, giving us unprecedented insight into how life forms on Earth and other planets. Yet, there's exactly zero proof that...
Mars Curiosity Rover Snaps Amazing New Selfies
NASA has got a good thing going. Its Curiosity Mars Rover is currently traveling. That is towards the southwestern region of the cold planet. This has occurred after many weeks of exploration of...
It would take 6 million Years to reach Kepler-452b
Yesterday NASA made a huge splash with the announcement of a new exoplanet Kepler-452b.Kepler-452b is the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to...
It would take 6 million Years to reach Kepler-452b
Yesterday NASA made a huge splash with the announcement of a new exoplanet Kepler-452b.Kepler-452b is the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to...
Stephen Hawking Announces Biggest Ever Search for Alien Life
On Monday the acclaimed British physicist announced a $100 million project dedicated to finding alien life in the universe will be launched soon. The project has been named Breakthrough Listen and is...
DARPA Engineering Microbes to Terraform Mars
DARPA is putting in all its efforts towards advancing its genetics department along with the talent pool of synthetic biological know-how it possesses. One of the most cutting edge fields related to...
Pyramid Found On Mars Built by An Ancient Civilization?
On the 7th of May the NASA Curiosity Rover took some photographs in which a rock like structure has the shape of a pyramid. The pyramid is supposedly the size of a small car or it could be the tip of...
Methane Gas Hints Life on Mars
Scottish researchers have targeted Mars as their object of interest and they have found several clues that point in the direction of life on the heavenly body. Methane gas has been found in a sample...