Missions to Mars have only scratched its surface. To go deeper, scientists are proposing a spacecraft that can drill into the Red Planet to potentially find signs of life.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

May 16, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Alien worlds resembling giant eyeballs might exist around red dwarf stars, and researchers are now proposing experiments to simulate these distant planets and see how capable they are of supporting life.

Space & Earth - Astronomy

May 03, 2013 4.7 / 5 (7) 4

(Phys.org)—In their search for habitable worlds, astronomers have started to consider exomoons, or those likely orbiting planets outside the solar system. In a new study, a pair of researchers has found ...

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Jan 10, 2013 5 / 5 (9) 7 |

(Phys.org)—University of Florida researchers have discovered for the first time that some Earth bacteria can live under the same low pressure conditions found on Mars.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jan 08, 2013 4.6 / 5 (5) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Astronomers find planets in strange places and wonder if they might support life. One such place would be in orbit around a white or brown dwarf. While neither is a star like the sun, both glow and so could be ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Nov 20, 2012 5 / 5 (6) 10 |

Millions of years ago fire and water forged the gypsum rocks locked in at Cuatro Ciénegas, a Mexican valley similar to the Martian crater where NASA's Rover Curiosity roams. A team of researchers have now ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Oct 29, 2012 4.2 / 5 (5) 3 |

(Phys.org)—Microorganisms that crashed to Earth embedded in the fragments of distant planets might have been the sprouts of life on this one, according to new research from Princeton University, the University ...

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Sep 24, 2012 3.3 / 5 (12) 7 |

(Phys.org)—Astronomers have discovered a veritable rogues' gallery of odd exoplanets—from scorching hot worlds with molten surfaces to frigid ice balls.

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Sep 12, 2012 5 / 5 (7) 4 |

Wichita State University associate professor Mark Schneegurt recently had a paper published in the journal Astrobiology.

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Aug 10, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

You can freeze it, thaw it, vacuum dry it and expose it to radiation but still life survives. ESA’s research on the International Space Station is giving credibility to theories that life came from outer ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jun 25, 2012 4.4 / 5 (17) 2 |

In a fjord in Canada scientists have found a landscape similar to one of Jupiter's icy moons: Europa. It consists of a frozen and sulphurous environment, where sulphur associated with Arctic bacteria offer ...

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May 30, 2012 3 / 5 (1) 0

NASA’s Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses (O/OREOS) nanosatellite has successfully carried microorganisms to a high-inclination, low-Earth orbit and monitored the effects of the space environment ...

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Mar 23, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1

Two metres below the surface of the Atacama Desert there is an 'oasis' of microorganisms. Researchers from the Center of Astrobiology (Spain) and the Catholic University of the North in Chile have found it ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Feb 16, 2012 5 / 5 (9) 4 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Within the next few years, the number of planets discovered in orbits around distant stars will likely reach several thousand or more. But even as our list of these newly discovered "exoplanets" ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Nov 21, 2011 4.3 / 5 (8) 8 |

New research suggests the habitable zone around some stars – the so-called Goldilocks zone – could be up to 30 per cent bigger than previously thought.

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Nov 14, 2011 5 / 5 (7) 26 |