Tag: astrobiology
Life as a Habitability Requirement
Astrobiologists often speak of a planet’s requirements for life, but can we turn that around? Is life a requirement for a planet’s habitability?
Europa Clipper Delayed by Hurricane Milton, Frustrating Atheists
However desperate the hope for alien biology, how much of your money will they NOT spend to try to find it?
Enceladus as a Habitability Test
High up on the astrobiologists’ bucket list for further exploration is a little moon of Saturn. How lively could it be at Enceladus?
Study Finds Life’s Origin “Required a Surprisingly Short Interval of Geologic Time”
It’s certainly not impossible that life was already present on Earth at 4.2 Ga. And if it were true it would have intriguing implications.
Bijan Nemati on the Search for Habitable Planets
One of the most exciting areas of space research is the search for Earth-like planets around other stars.