Australian scientists who modelled conditions on Mars to examine how much of the red planet was habitable said that "large regions" could sustain life.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Dec 12, 2011 4.8 / 5 (16) 41

One of the most sophisticated space vehicles ever made inches along the rocky landscape, aluminum wheels grinding like a spoon in a garbage disposal.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Nov 16, 2011 4.7 / 5 (11) 14

In 2011, retired chemist and entrepreneur Harry Lonsdale announced his plans to fund research on how life originally formed. Of the 76 proposals submitted to his Origin of Life Challenge, Lonsdale and his ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jun 20, 2012 5 / 5 (10) 49

Hairspray might one day serve as the sign that aliens have reshaped distant worlds, researchers say. Such research to find signs of alien technology is now open to funding from the public. ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Nov 22, 2012 4.9 / 5 (10) 4 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by astrobiologist William Bains suggests that if life has evolved on the frozen surface of Saturn's moon, Titan, it would be strange, smelly and explosive compared to life on Earth. ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Apr 14, 2010 4.4 / 5 (11) 3 |

Stromatolites are dome- or column-like sedimentary rock structures that are formed in shallow water, layer by layer, over long periods of geologic time. Now, researchers from the California Institute of Technology ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jul 16, 2009 4.3 / 5 (8) 2

(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 |

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

As NASA's Curiosity rover scours the surface of Mars and beams pictures of the stark and desolate landscape back to Earth, we've begun to paint a picture of what living on the red planet might actually be like.

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Oct 01, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0

Some people are not making plans for the New Year. From hiding in bomb shel­ters to sharp­ening their sur­vival skills, doomsday the­o­rists are preparing for judg­ment day, which the Mayan cal­endar ...

Other Sciences - Other

Dec 21, 2012 4.8 / 5 (4) 0

(AP) -- For decades, scientists have scanned the heavens in search of extraterrestrial life. Perhaps they should have looked closer to home. Variant life forms - most likely tiny microbes - could still be ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jan 26, 2010 2.5 / 5 (6) 0

To search for life on Mars, future astronauts would naturally want to step outside their living habitat for a walk. But the spacesuits keeping them alive might also carry Earth microbes or ingredients of life ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jun 16, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 5 |

One of the most vocal and ardent critics of the so-called 'arsenic life' experiment which was published in December 2010 was biologist Rosie Redfield from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The s ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Aug 11, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 1

A Washington State University astrobiologist is leading a group of 20 scientists in calling for a mission to Mars with "a strong and comprehensive life detection component." At the heart of their proposal ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Apr 23, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 6 |

For years, scientists have been tracking pollution that travels across the jet stream from Asia and measuring how much of it winds up in Northwest air. Now new work from University of Washington researchers shows it's not ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jan 07, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 2