#Astrobiology

Articles (11)

• 🇺🇸 New Study Complicates the Search for Alien Oxygen — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Oxygen has been the most important gas in our search for life among the cosmos thus far. On Earth, we have it in abundance because it is produced by biological synthesis. But that might not be the cas...

  Related: #Exoplanet Research
• 🇺🇸 Are Rogue Exomoons the Newest Frontier in the Search for Habitability? — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  There may be as many rogue planets or free-floating planets in the Milky Way as there are stars. If there are billions of these worlds, some of them have likely held onto their moons. New research rev...

  Related: #Exomoons
• 🇺🇸 Reading Europa's Fingerprints — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  Beneath Europa's cracked and frozen shell lies a vast ocean of liquid water and what's seeping up through that ice may be one of the most compelling clues we have ever found about the moon's potential...

  Related: #Space Exploration
• 🇺🇸 Life, But Not As We Know It — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  For sixty years, the search for life beyond Earth has been built on the single assumption that alien life will look enough like us to recognise. A radical new idea called Assembly Theory is challengin...

  Related: #Life Definition
• 🇺🇸 "Ionic Liquids" Could Redefine the Habitable Zone — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  “Follow the water” has been a guiding mantra of astrobiology, and even space exploration more generally for decades. If you want to find life, it makes sense to look for the universal solvent that alm...

  Related: #Chemistry
• 🇺🇸 Aliens Might Have Their Radio Signals Blurred By Their Star's Solar Wind — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  Back in the early 2000s, my computer screen, like that of many other space enthusiasts, was typically covered in a series of rainbow-colored spectral signals. As my computer crunched through thousands...

  Related: #Space Communication
• 🇬🇧 Stormy space weather may be garbling messages from aliens, new research suggests — 08/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Researchers who listen for signs of non-human life say signals ‘can slip below detection thresholds, even if it’s there’</p><p>Earth’s leading alien hunters believe extraterrestrials could be out t...

  Related: #Space Weather
• 🇺🇸 The Toughest Animals in the Universe Just Got a New Job — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  They are the toughest animals on Earth and possibly the key to surviving on Mars. Tardigrades, the microscopic creatures nicknamed 'water bears', have survived the vacuum of space, the crushing pressu...

  Related: #Space Exploration, #Planetary Protection, #Extreme Life Forms
• 🇺🇸 Would Earth Still Be Habitable Without Us? — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  Scientists have built a working model of Earth without any life on it and what they found might change how we search for aliens. By simulating 4.5 billion years of our planet's evolution minus every b...

  Related: #Planetary Science, #Space Exploration, #Habitability
• 🇺🇸 Exomoons Could Reveal Themselves Through Lunar Eclipses — 21/02/2026 [USA]

  Our solar system hosts almost 900 known moons, with more than 400 orbiting the eight planets while the remaining orbit dwarf planets, asteroids, and Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs). Of these, only a ha...

  Related: #Exoplanet research, #Space exploration technology
• 🇺🇸 The Optical Engineering Required to Photograph an Earth Twin — 20/02/2026 [USA]

  More and more papers are coming out about the upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). As the telescope moves from theory to practice (and physical manifestation), various working groups are disco...

  Related: #Exoplanet Research, #Optical Engineering