If you have ever cooked on a gas stove or seen a flame flicker to life with the turn of a knob, you have seen natural gas in action. Supplying […]
Colonization of the Moon and other planets is an aspiration of NASA and may yield important benefits for our civilization.
The very first cells obtained their energy from geochemical reactions. LMU researchers have now managed to recreate this ancient metabolic process in their laboratory.
This work examines the impact of high temperatures from celestial shock events on the stability of sulfates found on Mars (gypsum) and those expected to be present (syngenite and görgeyite).
Background The Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) instrument on NASA’s Perseverance rover is a deep ultraviolet Raman and fluorescence instrument used for organic […]
Because a range of silica minerals can precipitate from water, the analysis of silica mineral phases is important for astrobiological exploration.
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received a three-year, $2,999,998 million grant from NASA to identify and characterize life and its biosignatures in frozen sand dunes in Alaska, under conditions similar […]
Determining a reliable method to detect life on another planet is an essential first step in the pursuit of discovering extraterrestrial life.
In 1928, Indian physicist Sir C. V. Raman and his colleague K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light interacts with matter, parts of the scattered light undergo changes in energy […]
Ice is believed to have played a crucial role in the emergence of life. One reason is that organic molecules can be excluded into the gaps between the crystal lattice […]
