“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

Adam Stevens, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh and the UK Centre for Astrobiology said methane may be produced by other processes but th

Chemistry plays an important role in the interstellar medium (ISM), regulating heating and cooling of the gas, and determining abundances of molecu

Dr. Caleb A.

In a study recently published in the journal of Astrobiology, scientists Gilbert Levin and Patricia Ann Straat, from Arizona State University and t

He added this would lead to life elsewhere in the universe.

Self-assembling carbon microstructures created in a lab by University of Colorado Boulder researchers could provide new clues – and new cautions –

The study was headed by three eminent researchers - Yiran Dong, Robert Stanford, and Bruce W.

The instrument, named for its fast, hands-off approach to finding life, is described in a paper published in Astrobiology.

India’s first Astrobiology Conference – Life in Space- was organised in the city by Mumbai-based Indian Astrobiology Research Centre and IARC Centr