Astrobiology & Space Science Archives – Page 12 of 16

Here on Earth, scientists study layers of sediment like dirt and sand to better understand how rocks form. The same contextual clues…

For over a hundred years, humans on Earth have been using radio transmissions to communicate with each other. This ability to communicate…

Humans have always been fascinated with the vastness of the universe and its hidden truths. For ages we have tried to explore and study the…

What was the weather like in New York last week? You can look it up on weather.com. What was it like on March 7, 1953, in the pre-internet…

The amount of trace elements in ocean pyrite correspond to ocean oxygen concentrations at different points in geologic time.

Humans have long been fascinated by the huge Cosmos above us. Perhaps this fascination has been best put to words by Carl Sagan in his…

Evolution explains how living things change over successive generations, giving rise to diversity. Across the evolutionary history of Earth,…

Thanks to NASA’s Kepler Mission, over one-thousand potentially habitable exoplanets have been discovered to-date, orbiting around their…

How long has life been around on Earth? Is life an inevitable part of planet formation? The second question is tough to answer, but if life…

The airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is a flying observatory aboard a modified Boeing 747 that takes…

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