Astrobiology is the field of science concerned with the study of life in the universe and attempting to solve the mystery of how life emerged on Earth. This includes the search for life beyond Earth, ...

University of Arizona Ph.D. students gathered in the Sonett Space Sciences building on Dec. 8 to present their research and discuss other scientists’ research related to the study of astrobiology.

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. But the part of climate change we've failed to ...

Geobiology and Astrobiology are two vibrant and rapidly growing areas of interdisciplinary inquiry at CU-Boulder with many of our faculty engaged in cutting edge research at the interface of the two ...

What is astrobiology? Breaking it down, you see the word “astro” and you immediately relate it to “space”, now you see the word “biology” and you can guess that it means “life”. Putting them together ...

Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy at NASA David Dr. Grinspoon joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about astrobiology. Where do astrobiologists work? What is the probability ...

Nobody has yet seen an extraterrestrial, which may sound like a problem in establishing a science of astrobiology. But in the past 20 years or so, scientists have found clues that life may be quite ...

This year's Lunar Planetary Science Conference (2025 LPSC) saw some truly astounding presentations and proposals. These covered a wide range of science and exploration missions that address the ...

NASA says a full-fledged institute devoted to astrobiology is no longer needed given the maturity of the field, arguing it can be replaced with a looser network of researchers. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON ...

Interstellar fireworks in the giant nebula NGC 3603 is a prominent star-forming region in the Carina spiral arm of our galaxy, about 20,000 light-years away. Discovered by Sir John Herschel in 1834, ...

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