NASA’s ambitious plan toexplore Europa, one of Jupiter’s most intriguing moons, has faced a significant setback. The agency ...

On May 20, the SETI Institute held its annual Drake Awards event in Mountain View, CA, honoring contributions to SETI or ...

Space biotechnology holds enormous potential for revolutionizing human space exploration, particularly through deep-space ...

What if humanity isn’t the first or the only intelligent civilization to arise in the Milky Way? In this video, we dive into one of the most fascinating questions in astrophysics: Who (or what) could ...

As NASA rolls out more powerful telescopes in the future, scientists will need a way to determine where to point them. A new ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright scepticism. Recently, scientists claimed the “strongest evidence” of ...

When searching for life in the Universe (aka. astrobiology), scientists use strategies that go by various names. For example, ...

Midland elementary students recently reached for the stars through the Astrobiology STEM Activation Program (ASAP). Over four weeks, young learners at Woodcrest Elementary engaged in hands-on ...

NASA’s astrobiology ambitions are at risk of collapsing under the White House’s proposed budget. But your voice can make a difference ...

The portable instrument Astronaut Raman for In situ resource utilization and Astrobiology (ARIA), developed by SwRI’s Dr. Charity Phillips-Lander, uses Raman spectroscopy to examine the ...