Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is leading a mission to seek the elements necessary for life on exoplanets in far-away ...

Aliens on Earth? Ocean life discovery could offer clues to life on other planets Chemosynthetic life communities in the Northwest Pacific could offer glimpse of what life might look like on other ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

With basic science and imagination, we can hypothesize what life might develop on other planets James Trefil and Michael Summers You are in a long, dark tunnel walled with solid ice. The only light ...

If you were able to catch the last webinar from our Chemical Sciences Roundtable, “Chemistry in 2050– Space” you know that it was out of this world, literally and figuratively. The webinar explored ...

The idea of humans packing up and moving to another planet has been sold to us for decades as basically inevitable: Mars ...

What do the clouds on Jupiter, dust storms on Mars and rainstorms on Titan all have in common? They look like they belong on Earth. As we venture through the universe, scientists are finding uncanny - ...

Most pieces in this series of primers have stayed within the realm of the biological, examining life at the levels of the species, the individual, the organ and the cell. But the first dealt with a ...

Morgan Underwood receives funding from NASA-funded CLEVER Planets (Cycles of Life-Essential Volatile Elements in Rocky Planets) research project. When astronomers search for planets that could host ...