It used to be that if you asked an astronomer if there was intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, you’d get some sort of hedged response involving the vastness of the universe and statistical...
At first glance, it looks more like a freshly-fertilized chicken egg than Jupiter’s fourth largest moon. But Europa’s fractured brownish-colored surface also suggests activity beneath its surface. In...
NASA’s Curiosity rover recently rolled to a new vantage point on Mars and started snapping photos to send home, and one shot seems to show that some underground-dwelling martians may have left...
Awash in a sea of long-lived stellar Red dwarfs, our own sun seems to be somewhat of a local anomaly. Until recently, detecting these faint M-spectral type stars — much less their potential...
The eternal chicken or egg question — did Mars seed life on earth or did earth seed life on the Red Planet? — is utter astrobiological “nonsense.” Or so says Pascale Ehrenfreund, an astrochemist at...
Are there aliens out there in the vast recesses of deep space? The thought-provoking question has always haunted thinkers and professionals alike. But now an answer comes from the field of astronomy...
There is a mine discovered in the under ground channels of Canada that contains water. This water is proved to be 2.64 billion years old through experiments. Water is the secret of life. It is the...