Astrobiology
Radio Astronomy Podcast | Interview with astrobiologist Nicol Caplin
How can microorganisms help humans push further into space?
Can an exomoon make plants grow?
Tidally-locked exoplanets may use moonlight to photosynthesise.
Ingredient for life found around young stars
One of the necessary ingredients for life as we know it has been found around stars in a nearby system.
Asteroids, comets deliver organics to Mars
Organic molecules are thought to be delivered to Mars mostly via interplanetary dust particles. A new piece of research is revealing something quite different.
Could life exist on Titan?
Cold temperatures and harsh conditions make Titan one of the last places in the Solar System we might expect life to exist. But data sent back by the Cassini-Huygens mission has revealed the Saturnian moon could contain the right chemicals for certain kinds of life to flourish.
Comet 67P contains ingredients for life
ere the ingredients that kick-started life on Earth delivered by a comet or asteroid crash-landing on our planet? New data from ESA's Rosetta mission has revealed this could have been the case.
Can astrobiology help solve climate change?
Contemplating alien worlds could help us learn more about our own.
Organic molecules found round distant star
Clouds of cyanide could increase hope of finding life elsewhere in the Galaxy
Has Earth life colonised the Solar System?
An asteroid impact could have sent life-bearing material from Earth out to the other planets
Seeds from space
Complex organic molecules in interstellar dust clouds could have sparked life on Earth
Life...but not as we know it
Astrobiologists are becoming more aware of the need to search for organisms based on more exotic biochemistry.