Astrobiology Magazine is a NASA-sponsored online popular science magazine. Established in the year 2000, Astrobiology Magazine now has a vast archive of stories covering a broad array of topics. Astrobiology Magazine covers science and nature topics relevant to space, innovation and biology, with an emphasis on the existence, detection and exploration of life in the universe.
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A careful study of images taken by the NASA rover Curiosity has revealed intriguing similarities between ancient sedimentary rocks on Mars and structures shaped by microbes on Earth. The findings suggest, but do not prove, ...
Space Exploration
Jan 6, 2015
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Scientists have discovered one of the rarest minerals on Earth in a Wisconsin impact crater.
Earth Sciences
Jan 14, 2015
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In 1938, Orson Welles narrated a radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" as a series of simulated radio bulletins of what was happening in real time as Martians arrived on our home planet. The broadcast is widely remembered ...
Space Exploration
Jan 29, 2015
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When NASA's New Horizons cruises by Pluto in 2015, the images it captures could help astronomers determine if an ocean is hiding under the frigid surface, opening the door to new possibilities for liquid water to exist on ...
Space Exploration
Nov 24, 2011
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Desert planets strikingly like the world depicted in the science fiction classic "Dune" might be the more common type of habitable planet in the galaxy, rather than watery planets such as Earth, researchers suggest.
Space Exploration
Sep 2, 2011
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How do we define intelligence? SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, clearly equates intelligence with technology (or, more precisely, the building of radio or laser beacons). Some, such as the science fiction ...
Space Exploration
Aug 30, 2011
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Curiosity celebrated two years on Mars on August 5, 2014, and is continuing its progress across the surface of the planet. The rover has already fulfilled one of its primary mission goals by confirming that environments theoretically ...
Space Exploration
Sep 5, 2014
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During the space age, 1961 was a special year: the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit Earth, while the American astronomer Frank Drake developed the now famous Drake Equation. This equation estimates ...
Astronomy
Dec 3, 2012
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New research reveals that, like their giant cousins, rocky planets are more likely to be found orbiting high metallicity stars. Furthermore, these planets are more plentiful around low mass stars. This could have important ...
Astronomy
Sep 30, 2011
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When we look at the Solar System, what clues show us how it formed? We can see pieces of its formation in asteroids, comets and other small bodies that cluster on the fringes of our neighborhood (and sometimes, fly closer ...
Astronomy
Sep 8, 2014
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