October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... planetary exploration is planetary protection, i.e. the need to not contaminate any possible habitable environments with microbial life from Earth. This is of great concern as, unfortunately, scientists have found that there are microbes that can...
31 July 2017
Complex chemistry on Titan may form membranes
... with liquid methane suggests the intriguing possibility of chemical processes that are analogous to those important for life on Earth," said Maureen Palmer, a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author...
03 August 2018
Plate tectonics not needed for life, but UV light is
... (MRC LMB) have identified a group of planets where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth exist. The type of light is ultraviolet (UV) light - the wavelength of light that burns your skin if you don...
20 November 2019
Insects on Mars, fungi on Venus. Evidence is presented for life on our neighbouring planets
... 13 took before succumbing to its quick demise. Joseph, who is an advocate of directed panspermia – a hypothesis which suggests that life on Earth did not originate on our planet, but was transported here from somewhere else in the Universe – says...
30 November 2020
Researchers discover solid phosphorus in comet 67P
... emitted from the comet’s inner coma and collected by COSIMA, have identified a key element essential for life on Earth; phosphorus. Phosphorus is vital as it is used in the creation of DNA, cell membranes, and is required by all living organisms...
26 May 2021
Underwater volcanoes could be active on Europa
...on the list of objects to study for signs of life beyond Earth, even more so now, as new research shows that...magma. This discovery fundamentally changed our understanding of how life could develop on Earth. To understand if a scenario such as that ...
