astrobiology

An artist's concept of a comet or asteroid impact on Jupiter's moon Europa.NASA/JPL-Caltech Ever heard the theory that life came to Earth from outer space, hitching a ride on a comet?…
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Artist's impression of the Cassini spacecraft flying through plumes erupting from the south pole of ... Saturn's moon Enceladus. These plumes are much like geysers and expel a…
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Sun Comes Up from Behind Earth in Space.getty The mainstream planetary science community has become so obsessed with the hunt for life offworld, that it often forgets how little we know…
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Mars high resolution image. Mars is a planet of the solar system. Sunrise with lens flare. Elements ... of this image furnished by NASA.Getty Microbes could have existed on ancient…
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The robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance rover reached out to examine rocks in an area on Mars ... nicknamed the "Cratered Floor Fractured Rough" area in this image captured on July 10,…
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London - Jul 1, 2015: Black taxi cab driving over the Westminster Bridge near the Big Ben in London. getty Somewhat akin to barbers and bartenders, taxi drivers have…
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Large, hot, gas-filled loops after a solar frare has erupted. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images) Getty Images Our 4.5-billion-year-old yellow-dwarf star used to be a…
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Water worlds could be more common than we think. NASA via Getty Images It’s only been a few decades since astronomers have been able to confirm the existence of…
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Dr Heidy Quitián-Lara at the Pleiades beam-line of the Soleil synchrotron in 2021. Heidy Quitián-Lara Colombian astrochemist Dr Heidy Mayerly Quitián-Lara…
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Illustration of an icy exoplanet. An international team of researchers have created a color catalog ... of 80 microorganisms which thrive in icy environments on the…
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