Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

If you keep up with where the next SpaceX or Blue Origin rocket is headed, you are probably familiar with NASA’s Double ...

What are the processes necessary to do so? Can life travel from one planet to another? If so, how? Today's technology brings ...

Organic materials are found all over our solar system, but life so-far only exists on Earth. Our planet's early stages were ...

In this roundup of space news, we talk about sugar molecules in space, a call for volunteers for a simulated Moon/Mars mission and next steps for NASA's New Horizons probe.

The sci-fi movie “Disclosure Day” predicts that our reaction to intelligent alien life will be chaotic. But what does the ...

Scientists have identified a sugar molecule named erythrulose in interstellar space. This complex molecule was found in a gas ...

This repository contains the JupyterBook course notes, study resources, and optional computational activities for ASTR120: Life in the Universe at East Texas A&M University. The course explores one of ...

Creatures that survive extreme conditions like mind-boggling temperatures and toxicity challenge how we define life. Bárbara Pinho finds out how it will impact how we search for life beyond Earth ...

Suggested Citation: "Front Matter." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Origins, Worlds, and Life: Planetary Science and Astrobiology in ...

Scientists have detected the highly contagious H5 bird flu in an Australian seabird for the first time, the government said ...

Astronomers studying the exoplanet K2-18 b have found that earlier hints of dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide, two ...