Recent surveys have uncovered an exciting new population of ultra-short-period (USP) planets with orbital periods less than a day.

Penelope Boston, director of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute, and Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at SETI recently identified seven potential hotsp

He served as director of the Multiple Mirror Telescope and principle Investigator for the Arizona arm of NASA's Astrobiology Institute.

Daily Caller sat down with Dr.

Drew Palmer, an assistant professor of Biological Sciences, Brooke Wheeler an assistant professor at the College of Aeronautics, and astrobiology m

Data gathered from the Viking landers — two Martian spacecraft equipped with astrobiology experiments — is considered inconclusive.

Boffins at Yale University in the USA, co-ordinated by Sean McMahon, published their findings in the scientific journal Astrobiology.

Some of us find it helpful to ask, what science and whose religion are we discussing?

We explore the possible Proxima Centauri b's interiors assuming the planet belongs to the class of dense solid planets (rocky with possible ad

The Astrobiology Early Career Collaboration Award offers research-related travel support for undergraduate, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows

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“The fact that on Earth life emerged quickly just after conditions became habitable suggests that this could happen often in other systems, too,” s

If Beuthe’s hunch about Dione is correct, the astrobiology implications are thrilling.

The findings were published in the September issue of the journal of Astrobiology.

They consult engineer Prof Danielle George from the University of Manchester and Dr Louisa Preston, UK Space Agency Aurora Research Fellow in Astro

In his team’s latest study published in the journal Astrobiology, Dr.

What does this mean for education? Maybe we’ll see a spike in demand for space sciences, from rocketry to astrobiology.

I participated in a conference this past weekend about "social and conceptual issues in astrobiology." Among the questions we 30 attendee

We consider super-Earth sized planets which have a water mass fraction that is large enough to form an external mantle composed of high pressure wa

Scientists thought they knew why, but a new modeling study from the Alternative Earths team of the NASA Astrobiology Institute has fired the lead a

While sci-fi films often use science as a tool for the audience to explore the film’s key themes (biology is used in the Alien franchise, theoretic

"The discovery of water geysers on Europa – and geysers by the way that are much more prolific than at Enceladus – means that we have high-pri

Cassini’s discovery of activity on Enceladus has prompted some astronomers to propose a dedicated astrobiology mission to the moon, which could sam

In an effort to further our interest in understanding basic chemistry of interstellar molecules, we carry out here an extensive investigation of th