Here, we apply an anthropological lens to expand this scope to surface technosignatures: non-random, intentional patterning on planetary terrain, similar to long-lasting human-made landscapes and ...

In a paper published Monday in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers using Hubble studied 37 nearby dwarf galaxies — small galaxies containing a few thousand to hundreds of millions of stars — and ...

Earth is the only known planet in the solar system that can sustain and provide a habitable environment for life ...

Planetary Protection risk assessments would benefit from extending beyond traditional microbial monitoring methods like the Standard Spore Assay (SSA).

Extraterrestrial material has often been evaluated as delivered cargo: amino acids, nucleobases, organics, brines, or biological vectors.

Gabrielle Schweitzer performs a ultraviolet light inspection on a Dragonfly Mass spectrometer (DRAMS) transducer at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt Md., Oct. 20, 2026. “DraMS will allow ...