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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.Gareth Dorrian, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of BirminghamA recent study claims to have found evidence for mushroom-like life forms on the surface...

The search for life on exoplanets takes a fairly conservative approach. It focuses on life that is similar to that of Earth. Sure, it’s quite possible that life comes in many exotic forms, and scientists have speculated about all...

Nova Cassiopeiae still continues. It's been 12 weeks since Nova...

Two teams of scientists from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, have won first and second place in NASA's Vascular Tissue Challenge. Source link

To catch sight of a fast radio burst is to be extremely lucky in where and when...

Several sci-fi franchises are uniting in the new season of Fortnite to help fight off an alien invasion.Superman is the starring character of Chapter 2, Season 7, which debuted Tuesday (June 8). But you'll also get space-themed assists from...

Image: ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Megan MacArthur run sessions on the Pilote experiment proposed by France’s space agency CNES in the European Columbus module of the International Space Station.Continuing French neuroscience experiments started on the Russian space...

NASA will announce the first- and second-place winners of the Vascular Tissue Challenge, a prize competition to grow and sustain functioning human tissue in a lab, Wednesday, June 9. Source link

Expedition 65 astronauts will conduct two spacewalks – one Wednesday, June 16, and the other Sunday, June 20 – to install new solar arrays to help power the International Space Station. Source link

In 1960, the first survey dedicated to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) was mounted at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. This was Project Ozma, which was the brainchild of famed astronomer and SETI pioneer Frank Drake...