To Study the Next Earth, NASA May Need to Throw Some Shade
The agency wants to hunt exoplanets, so it’s designing star shades and coronagraphs that block out starlight and give telescopes a clear view. ..
The agency wants to hunt exoplanets, so it’s designing star shades and coronagraphs that block out starlight and give telescopes a clear view. ..
A mathematical model shows how a thermodynamic mechanism could have made protocells split in two. ..
Astronomers with the Breakthrough Listen project scan the sky for signs of extraterrestrial life, but a promising lead turned out to be a false alarm. ..
As the agency develops plans for exploring the moon and Mars, it's seeking cutting-edge research that could turn science fiction into reality. ..
A research chemist mixed nitrogen, methane, and other molecules to re-create the conditions that might harbor life on one of Saturn’s moons. ..
Far from a failure, the sampling might actually offer tantalizing clues about the geology—and potential past life—of the Red Planet. ..
InSight and Perseverance have sent back unprecedented data on everything from marsquakes to the Red Planet’s inner layers. ..
NASA tracks the microbes that live on the space station, and sometimes it discovers new ones. Those hardy bugs may offer clues about surviving long missions. ..