The Arecibo Observatory Space Academy (AOSA), started in 2013, is a pre-college semester-long program aimed at deepening the scientific interest an

MAVEN, for all its benefits to weather studies, was originally pitched as an astrobiology mission.

The existence of microbial life on Mars remains highly controversial, but recent evidence of water, complex organic molecules, and methane in the M

ExoMars is an astrobiology mission co-launched with European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos).

ExoMars(Exobiology on Mars) is a two-part Martian astrobiology life searching project and joint mission of the European Space Agency(ESA) and Russi

Before the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, NASA’s “follow the water”maxim had already delivered results that suggested a watery past and just maybe

Recognizing whether a planet can support life is a primary goal of future exoplanet spectral characterization missions, but past research on habita

Two scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) who are members of the NASA Astrobiology Program have been honored as 2016 Mac

Exomars is an astrobiology mission that has been created to look for signs of biological and geological activities on Mars.

a professor of planetary science and astrobiology, and others. Above: A map of the Moon produced by China's Chang'e-1 orbiter (CAS).

Adam Stevens, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh and the UK Centre for Astrobiology, has worked on the science associated with the ExoMars

Life exists in a myriad of wondrous forms, but if you break any organism down to its most basic parts, it's all the same stuff: carbon atoms c

Dr. Luis Campos begins his tenure as the fourth Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.

Their research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the NASA Astrobiology Program under the NASA/NSF Center for Chemical Evolutio

The recent discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet around Proxima Centauri has shined a spot light on slowly rotating fully convective M-stars.

as measured extinction rates match with Thomas’s models.

However, a new modeling study from the Alternative Earths team of the NASA Astrobiology Institute has a different idea.

The Astrobiology Chair is a distinguished senior research position in residence at the Library of Congress for a period of up to twelve months.

This lack of discovery of extraterrestrial life has long been used as a knock on the field of astrobiology and has sometimes been put forward as a

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

Are we alone in the universe? Thanks to NASA's new brand of science--astrobiology--we're much more likely to find out.

Space scientists estimate the odds of humanity being the only civilization in the universe at less than one chance in about “10 billion trillion.”

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