Can the world muster the will, the inspiration — and the cash — to get us there?

Former Beagle 2 mission manager Mark Sims, now Professor of Astrobiology at Leicester University, came up with the idea of combining modelling with

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has been used to measure the weathering of meteorites on the Red Planet, revealing just how little water there i

“It turns out we didn’t make that many mistakes,” said former Beagle 2 mission manager Mark Sims, currently professor of astrobiology and space sci

A video made explaining the Beagle 2 project when the images of the lander was found in 2014 - it was this finding that led to the DMU research Pro

A strangely shaped depression on Mars could be a new place to look for signs of life on the Red Planet, according to a University of Texas at Austi

It’s one of science’s oldest questions.

Despite the obvious doom and gloom associated with mass extinctions, they have a tendency to capture our imagination.

She endeavours to examine the properties of those bodies, the geological processes that connect their interiors with their surfaces, the resemblanc

“It’s a guess how much of the planet’s surface was land, but it could be as high as two-thirds of the area of today’s continents,” says Johnson, wh

However, whereas Curiosity sought to find out how habitable Mars once was — that is, how capable it was of supporting life as it is known on Earth

But what Andrew Pohorille did not tell me at the time was that just a few days prior to our meeting, NASA’s Astrobiology Program—headed by Mary Voy

Traces of 2-3 Myr old 60Fe were recently discovered in a manganese crust and in lunar samples.

This principle is used extensively in all industries and fields.

This isn’t to say the entire field of astrobiology doesn’t exist, it’s just that it’s primarily focused on the extraterrestrial environments where

A sensing technique that the U.S.

He is a Professor at University of Washington where he does research on mass extinctions and habitability, conservation biology of coral reefs, as

He has been a NASA Solar System Ambassador since 2009 and serves as the Astrobiology Ambassador for the NASA/MIRS/UNCF Special Program Corporation’

According to research published in the journal Physical Review C, neutron stars and cell cytoplasm have something in common: structures that resemb

The detection of organic molecules with increasing complexity and potential biological relevance is opening the possibility to understand the forma

The UKCA's astrobiology academy ( www.astrobiologyacademy.org ), an initiative to produce cur

One criticism of astrobiology is the tendency to look for familiar carbon-based life that would thrive in the presence of water.

What viewers see in Life is a better, more probable interpretation of what extraterrestrial organisms might look like than most sci-fi works — yet

Laframboise explains: “A policy cannot be considered evidence-based if the evidence on which it depends was never independently verified… News from