One of humanity’s most profound questions is whether life exists beyond Earth — and if so, what forms it might take. For ...

What Cassini Saw — and What It Didn’t Why are Titan’s river deltas missing? Planetary scientist Beth Johnson chats with Brown University’s Sam Birch to explore a strange and unexpected mystery on ...

Education: PhD in Astrophysics, obtained in 2015 at the Université Grenoble Alpes, France, jointly with the Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy Laura Venuti is an astronomer in the field of star ...

Dr. Simon J. George has long been interested in how and why biological organisms use metals to do many of the key chemical reactions that allow life to happen. Metals, such as iron, nickel, molybdenum ...

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In the twenty years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, powerful hurricanes such as Sandy, Irma, Maria and Helene have caused immense property destruction and led to thousands of deaths ...

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What if billions of years ago, the Red Planet had rain, snow, and even rivers that carved out landscapes much like those we see on Earth?

Stunning stellar explosions occur every second across the cosmos – some observable, most too distant to ever know, all of them fleeting, lasting from seconds to tens of thousands of years. In the age ...

How Chemistry Might Explain Life on Other Planets What if the origin of life isn’t a one-in-a-billion cosmic fluke, but something that happens whenever the conditions are just right? Join ...