Recent findings from researchers at UCLA and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are shaking up our understanding of life’s ...

Lava tubes on Earth have been studied for signs of ancient microbial life, providing a model for searching for life in ...

The allure of space exploration has driven humanity to achieve remarkable feats, from landing on the Moon to maintaining a ...

Could life on Earth have taken a completely different form, based on the “handedness” of its chemical? A new study by ...

Curtin University scientists discover 4.45-billion-year-old evidence of water activity on Mars, hinting at early habitability ...

A pair of planetary scientists simulated how our solar system might have evolved if it had a super-Earth orbiting where the ...

If we did find traces of life beyond Earth, we might learn more about the beginnings of its evolution here.' Peredur Williams Source: The Observatory: A Review of Astronomy 'The book is a stimulating ...

Second Genesis follows planetary scientist Carolyn Porco as she explores what it takes to look for life beyond Earth, and what conditions are required for life to exist. Porco makes the case that ...

The question is no longer, is there life beyond Earth? It’s a pretty sure bet there is. The question now is, how do we find it? The revelation that the galaxy is teeming with planets has ...

QUESTION: What are the chances for life on Venus? GRINSPOON: Early telescopic images of Venus showed that Venus and Earth are virtually identical in size, and that Venus is surrounded by clouds.

In the process, fascinating insights from the fields of astronomy, evolutionary biology, palaeoanthropology, neuroscience and linguistics are uncovered, shedding new light on life as we know it on ...