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

A comet strike may have triggered the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a rapid warming of the Earth caused by an accumulation of atmospheri

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We analyze data from the Quarter 1-17 Data Release 24 (Q1--Q17 DR24) planet candidate catalog from NASA's Kepler mission, specifically compari

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

Pitts serves as the "Astrobiology Ambassador" for the NASA/MIRS/UNCF Special Program Corporation's Astrobiology Partnership Program.

This creates what is called ground-level ozone.

a grant from the American Philosophical Society Lewis and Clark Fund, a NASA Exobiology grant, a NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the Foundations

ExoMars, an astrobiology mission designed to hunt for signs of geologic and biological activity on Mars, is on track to reach orbit on October 19th

A team of astrobiology scientists discovered that, during the Earth's early times, greenhouse gas in the form of methane was not the one to pl

Professor Lewis Dartnell, an astrobiology at the University of Westminster, who is designing laser eyes for the European Space Agency's own Ma

Miscommunication could be tragic, as in this old episode of The Twilight Zone: Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a professor of astrobiology at Washington Sta

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

Mary A. Voytek is a senior scientist. She is head of NASA's Astrobiology Program. She started Nexus for Exoplanet System Science.

Robotic missions have revealed many features on the surface of Mars that appear to have been formed by large amounts of flowing water.

On September 27, 2016, paleobiologist Phoebe Cohen of the NASA Astrobiology Institute team at MIT presented a talk entitled “The First Appearance o

Her reports have appeared in the Financial Times, The Economist, Forbes, Newsday, Archaeology, Astrobiology, Connoisseur, Omni, Huffington Post, Pr

As climate change continues in the anthropocene, can astrobiology offer insight into the futures of humanity?

So what’s next for the former Bradfordian?

Adam Frank has a recent article called Climate change and the astrobiology of the anthropocene.

A team led by Drew Palmer, an assistant professor of Biological Sciences, and Brooke Wheeler, an assistant professor at the College of Aeronautics,

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

Astronomers have discovered a 'hot molecular core,' a cocoon of molecules surrounding a newborn massive star, for the first time outside

You can’t solve a problem until you understand it. When it comes to climate change, on a fundamental level we don’t really understand the problem.