Astrobiology & Space Science Archives – Page 17 of 19

Water is essential for life. When searching for life in the universe, the first thing researchers do is “follow the water”. Mars is no…

Jacob Haqq-Misra, Ravi Kopparapu, and Eric Wolf attempt to address this question in a recent paper titled "Why do we find ourselves around a…

From chemistry to biology to social networks, specific shared principles should guide how information is organized and how it cycles through…

Radio astronomers working with a radio dish telescope detected something a bit unusual. They were seeing a very fast radio burst, faster and…

In a last scientific hurrah, the Cassini spacecraft has detected that hydrogen is being ejected from the moon’s ice-covered ocean.

If intelligent aliens exist somewhere in the depths of space, then should we see signs of their technology? This question has motivated…

You are on one of those trips where the travel is so tedious that even your cell phone looks boring. Not being able to sleep, you look out…

51 Pegasi b is a roughly jupiter-sized planet around a star pretty similar to our sun. This planet has been part of astronomy conversations…

Stars and planets are most often categorized by their mass. In astronomy, the “initial mass function” is used for this categorization.…

Did you know that a black hole is a kind of star? What would it really be like if our sun, also a star, was a black hole?

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