space research

NASA scientists have announced first results from new intelligent systems, to be installed in space probes, capable of identifying geochemical signatures of life from rock samples

Since the flybys by the Voyager and Galileo spacecraft, scientists have held that the surface crust floats on a subsurface ocean

Getting the machine to produce results useful for studying nature took two and a half years of engineering adjustments

Gravity affects protein assembly related to Alzheimer's disease

Until a few years ago, it remained difficult to gain an overview of how widespread such rock movements are and where exactly they occur

NASA has developed a ground-based galactic cosmic ray simulator at the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory

A multi-year study into the microorganisms living on and in individual astronauts with long duration stays on the International Space Station

Study suggests terrestrial life unlikely to contaminate planet

New findings bring us closer to knowing the precise timing and duration of Mars' dynamo—a flow of molten metal within the planet's core that produces an electrical current

Four-billion-year-old nitrogen-containing organic molecules discovered in Martian meteorites using advanced analytical techniques