Science news articles about 'harbor life'

... it will delay the planned launch of a major Mars unmanned mission to explore whether the Red Planet was capable of harboring life from next year to 2011 due to technical problems.

The largest volcano on Mars may hold water and the possibility of life.

From the skies of Venus to the Martian underground--a new tool pinpoints the three extraterrestrial worlds most likely to support life in our solar system, along with two also-rans.

... great, since we know at least one of them harbors life. But David Kipping of the Harvard-Smithsonian ... moons is nothing new. After all, the search for alien life within our solar system generally focuses ...

... sun. However, recent theoretical studies have shown that the environment of M stars might not preclude their planets from harboring life have made M stars much more interesting to ...

More massive than Earth but less massive than Neptune, super-Earths could harbor life outside our solar system, some scientists believe.

... at a vast underground Swiss laboratory will launch an experiment on Wednesday to re-enact the "Big Bang" on a small scale to explain the origins of the universe and how it came to harbor life.

... Physics has been selected by NASA to lead a $485 million orbiting space mission slated to launch in 2013 to probe the past climate of Mars, including its potential for harboring life over the ages.

One of the moons in our solar system that scientists think has the potential to harbor life may have a far more dynamic ocean than previously thought. If the moon Europa is tilted on its axis even ...

As NASA’s Kepler space telescope this week begins scanning the Milky Way for planets that might harbor life, scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) are ...

... be habitable for life as we know it. Various moons of Jupiter have long been considered as potentially harboring life. But one of them, Io, has so much volcanic activity, the result of tidal forces ...

Extraterrestrial source confirmed for comet’s amino acids