For nearly 60 years, Star Trek has sent its crews toward the same question that working astrobiologists ask every day: What does life look like somewhere that isn’t Earth? In […]
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Detected: Rocky, Habitable-zone Exoplanet With An Atmosphere
[Carnegie Science] A team of scientists led by Harvard University’s Collin Cherubim and including Shreyas Vissapragada and other Carnegie astronomers has detected evidence of an atmosphere on a rocky planet […]
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Astrobiology (general), Biosignatures & Paleobiology, NASA Astrobiology Program, Origin & Evolution of Life, People Of Astrobiology, Press Release
Teaching A.I. to Detect Life: Carnegie Scientist Co-Leads NASA-Funded Effort
A multi-institutional team co-led by Carnegie Science’s Michael L. Wong and Caleb Scharf of the NASA Ames Research Center has received a prestigious $5 million, five-year NASA Interdisciplinary Consortia for […]
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Mars, Origin & Evolution of Life, Press Release, SETI & Technosignatures, Tricorders & Sensors
Did Life Exist On Mars? Other Planets? With AI’s Help, We May Know Soon
Scientists have discovered a simple and reliable test for signs of past or present life on other planets – “the holy grail of astrobiology.”
Posted inAstrochemistry, Astrogeology, Habitable Zones, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
How Did Earth Get Its Water?
Our planet’s water could have originated from interactions between the hydrogen-rich atmospheres and magma oceans of the planetary embryos that comprised Earth’s formative years, according to new work from Carnegie […]
Posted inAstrochemistry, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Icy Worlds, Meteorites & Asteroids, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Where Did Earth’s Water Come From? Not Melted Meteorites
Water makes up 71 percent of Earth’s surface, but no one knows how or when such massive quantities of it arrived on Earth.
Posted inAnalog Studies, Away Teams & Field Reports, Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Biophysics, Cryobiology, Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments, Press Release
New NSF-Funded Institute Will Probe Biology In The Absence Of Water
Water is inextricably linked to our understanding of life—it makes up most of our planet’s surface and organisms across the tree of life depend on it to function. Yet the […]