22 June 2020
Icy Pluto may have started off hot with an early ocean
... might be currently occurring and is why the smallest of the Galilean moons has attracted a lot of attention from an astrobiological perspective. The team also calculate that hot starts are probably relevant only for bodies of roughly...
05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
... planetary radii) also makes for a valuable target note the team in their research paper published recently in Astrobiology. But, say Schulze-Makuch and colleagues, these characteristics mean little by themselves if a planet is too young or too...
18 April 2016
APSS 2016 Was Held in Beijing at the End of February
... stellar astronomy, galactic astronomy, extragalactic astronomy, physical cosmology, aerospace engineering, planetary science, astrobiology, forensic astronomy, archaeoastronomy, and space archaeology. APSS 2016 was a valuable and important platform...
29 March 2018
The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth
...far beyond it”. The book itself is a compilation of contributions from almost two dozen academics with interests in astrobiology, SETI and associated topics. According to the cover blurb, the volume provides a platform for “distinguished philosophers...
29 April 2018
Atmospheric Evolution on Inhabited and Lifeless Worlds
... at “graduate-level students and researchers working across the fields of atmospheric science, geochemistry, planetary science, astrobiology and astronomy”. This is undoubtedly a textbook, being filled with equations, line diagrams and charts that...
21 November 2018
Jezero Crater chosen as landing site for Mars 2020 mission
...as far back as 3.6 billion years old, that could potentially answer important questions in planetary evolution and astrobiology,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. “Getting samples from this unique...
