Two European Space Agency Mars-orbiting missions, the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, watched as a powerful solar "superstorm" that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet. The ...
Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...
Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.
When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two ...
Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.
Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...
Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...
Two US lunar landers launched from the Kennedy Space Center touched down on the moon in March 2025, marking a milestone for NASA's Artemis program.
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An intriguing religious issue is raised by an odd space-age colloquy in mid-February between Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Out of the blue, political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen asked Obama, “Are ...
Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to survive inside, while also protecting them from being desiccated or exposed to ...
America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these ...