SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged astrobiology Perseverance rover reveals Martian lakebed is surprisingly volcanic Igneous rocks provide a timeline to a crater lake. By Phil Plait | 2 weeks ago The depths of Hell: Rocket Lab is sending a mission to Venus Tasting the clouds of Venus to look for life. By Phil Plait | 1 month ago The building blocks for RNA-based life have been found… in the center of the Milky Way Did life here begin out there? Or maybe its complex ingredients? By Phil Plait | 1 month ago How is Canada like Mars? Lost Hammer Spring shows us Canadian microbes are a lot like what Mars life would look like. By Phil Plait | 2 months ago The death knell of life in a Martian meteorite Organic molecules found in a Mars rock were probably not from Martian life. By Phil Plait | 2 months ago Jupiter's moon Europa is getting salty Table salt all but confirmed on its surface. By Phil Plait | 2 months ago It’s getting harder for life in Venus’ atmosphere to exist Could there be bacteria in the atmosphere of Venus that eats sulfur? Wellll… By Phil Plait | 3 months ago On frozen planets, there might be aliens at the end of the rainbow It's definitely weirder than a pot of gold. By Elizabeth Rayne | 6 months ago The Dead Red Planet Part 1: If ancient Mars had oceans, where exactly were they? New data casts doubt on purported shorelines. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago Could a probe possibly seek out life in the toxic clouds of Venus? Venus hasn’t nearly gotten the headlines Mars has when it comes to the search for life, but that might change. By Elizabeth Rayne | 9 months ago Load More
Perseverance rover reveals Martian lakebed is surprisingly volcanic Igneous rocks provide a timeline to a crater lake. By Phil Plait | 2 weeks ago
The depths of Hell: Rocket Lab is sending a mission to Venus Tasting the clouds of Venus to look for life. By Phil Plait | 1 month ago
The building blocks for RNA-based life have been found… in the center of the Milky Way Did life here begin out there? Or maybe its complex ingredients? By Phil Plait | 1 month ago
How is Canada like Mars? Lost Hammer Spring shows us Canadian microbes are a lot like what Mars life would look like. By Phil Plait | 2 months ago
The death knell of life in a Martian meteorite Organic molecules found in a Mars rock were probably not from Martian life. By Phil Plait | 2 months ago
Jupiter's moon Europa is getting salty Table salt all but confirmed on its surface. By Phil Plait | 2 months ago
It’s getting harder for life in Venus’ atmosphere to exist Could there be bacteria in the atmosphere of Venus that eats sulfur? Wellll… By Phil Plait | 3 months ago
On frozen planets, there might be aliens at the end of the rainbow It's definitely weirder than a pot of gold. By Elizabeth Rayne | 6 months ago
The Dead Red Planet Part 1: If ancient Mars had oceans, where exactly were they? New data casts doubt on purported shorelines. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago
Could a probe possibly seek out life in the toxic clouds of Venus? Venus hasn’t nearly gotten the headlines Mars has when it comes to the search for life, but that might change. By Elizabeth Rayne | 9 months ago
