Astrobiology

China made history by landing its Change-4 spacecraft on the moon's far side. The mission was also the first to experiment with growing plants on the moon, and it transported a mini-biosphere dubbed the Lunar Micro Ecosystem to the lunar surface (LME). 

According to scientists, all of the key elements of our DNA have now been discovered on meteorites. What exactly does this mean? Simply put,...

If we send a crewed spaceship to Mars right now and it lands in a large canyon and starts exploring, they'll find a massive...

Five friends in Arizona planned to send a GoPro, a camcorder, and a phone up in a weather balloon to record some footage of space.

The human brain is capable of creating structures in up to 11 dimensions, according to scientists. According to a study published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience,...

Do planets have intelligence? That seems to be the main idea behind a new hypothesis put forth by astrobiologists: that planets are also intelligent beings. This thought experiment is based on the idea that planets like Earth have undergone changes due to the collective activity of life, such as that of microorganisms or plants, which has given them the ability to develop a life of their own.

This week, NASA presented the first full-color photographs captured by its James Webb space telescope, and the results are astonishing. While it is easy to...

Just imagine that future humans may be able to travel to distant planets and discover... more humans.According to one astrobiologist at the University of...

According to scientists, all of the key elements of our DNA have now been discovered on meteorites. What exactly does this mean? Simply put,...

Ground-based telescopes delivered the first real-time view of a red supergiant star's death throes. While they are neither the brightest nor most massive stars,...