Most recently, she served as astrophysics branch chief in the Space Science and Astrobiology Division at NASA Ames.

I'm very interested in the mineralogy and astrobiology of other worlds, especially those in our own Solar System.

Never, say those involved in the search.

A liquid ocean lying deep beneath Pluto's frozen surface is the best explanation for features revealed by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft,

An illustration released by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows the Schiaparelli EDM lander.

Called Schiaparelli, the lander was an astrobiology project specifically designed to search for life on Mars.

In this book, I have gathered together my dream team of alien experts from a diverse range of fields: cosmology, astrobiology, chemistry, psycholog

"Therefore we have to look at other avenues for where they came from." The findings, published in the journal Astrobiology, raise new que

Professor Mark Sims, former Beagle 2 Mission Manager and Professor of Astrobiology and Space Instrumentation at the University of Leicester came up

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

The question of what the hell went wrong remained open.

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