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 similar structures on Mars. A comprehensive study of lava tubes—caves formed by c ...

Kepler’s mission was to see how many planets it could find orbiting some 150,000 stars in one tiny patch of sky—about as much as you can cover ... is there life beyond Earth?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...