Nasa considers sending swimming robots to habitable ‘ocean worlds’ of the Solar System: Realistic colour view of Jupiter's moon Europa. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute Nasa has recently announced US$ 600,000 (£495,000) in funding for a study into the feasibility of sending swarms of miniature swimming robots (known as independent micro-swimmers) to explore oceans beneath the icy shells …
Earth has stayed habitable for billions of years – exactly how lucky did we get?: xtock / shutterstock It took evolution 3 or 4 billion years to produce Homo sapiens. If the climate had completely failed just once in that time then evolution would have come to a crashing halt and we would not be …
How we detected water on a potentially habitable exoplanet for the first time: Artist’s impression of planet K2-18 b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser, Author provided With more than 4,000 exoplanets – planets orbiting stars other than our sun – discovered so far, it may seem like …
A layer of ‘aerogel’ could make Mars habitable and even enable life to develop there – but here’s why we should wait: Artist concept of settlement on Mars. NASA Transforming the red planet to support life has long been a dream of science fiction. Mars is now too cold to support life. Its atmosphere is …
[Video News File; media resource preview] NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered the first validated Earth-size planet orbiting in the habitable zone o… Wrote a love song, with Golden, in a coffee shop just for the pun of it. Be sure to check out Golden! He’s an awesome artist that is going to be doing …