28 September 2020
String of underground lakes found under Mars' South Pole
.... “The water bodies at the base of the SPLD [south polar layered deposits] therefore represent areas of potential astrobiological interest and planetary protection concern," write the team in their paper. "Future missions to Mars should target...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... representatives and science experts in fields related to planetary protection (such as planetary sciences, geology and geophysics, astrobiology, microbiology and sample-return). This enables the Panel to evaluate and properly assess the requests and...
February 2020
Surviving bacteria in space
... Bizerte. Her current research focuses on biofilm growth in spacecraft environments. She is a founding member of the astrobiology committee at the Tunisian Astronomical Society and founder of the Tunisian Association for Biotechnology students. Najla...
14 September 2020
Possible signs of microbial life found in Venus' atmosphere
... must be harbouring life of some kind, concludes the team’s research. Cue what could be the biggest revelation in astrobiology to date, as a research team headed by Jane Greaves at Cardiff University, UK and who also includes Sousa-Silva, has...
19 October 2020
Astronomers identify a true water-world that could have an ocean over 100 kms deep
... for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations). The team, headed by Jorge Lillo-Box at the Centro de Astrobiología in Madrid, Spain, collected 113 new high-precision radial velocity observations over a year and half, doubling...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
In space research, the International Space Station (ISS) is a symbol of peaceful interational collaboration in Earth orbit, and is intended to be used intensively as a one-of-a-kind laboratory for cutting-edge research. In future, it will be ...
