Over tens of millions of years, Europa has been churned by impacts to the depth of 30 cm & the search for biosignatures must below that zone.
Dec 27th: Impact Gardening Churns Surface of Saturn’s Moon Europa
Tag: life
Aug 27th: How Common Are Habitable Exoplanets?
How common are habitable planets? Where’s the life? How common are planets that could potentially support life?
May 14th: Life in the Dark: How Moons of Rogue Planets Could Harbor Life
In our galaxy, there are many planets that wander alone in the dark, without a star to orbit. Some of these rogue planets could have moons which remain in tow, and these moons could be more than just cold and barren rocks.
Nov 24th: Once and Future Life on Venus, Earth, and Mars
Each week, when we set off to do this show, we start with one core idea: We want to tell you what is new in space and astronomy… and remember Earth is a planet too.
Nov 3rd: The History of Life As We Know It
Today’s EVSN will look at how we now work to understand the history of life on Earth by studying the geology of our planet and apply them to Mars, and exoplanets.
Sep 29th: The Search for Life on Other Worlds
new asteroid has been discovered with an orbit that crosses our own planet’s orbit. In general, this object and Earth are very good and not trying to occupy the same space at the same time, and we’ve managed to coexist for a fair amount of time..
Aug 6th: Double Trouble & Aliens?
Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble object is heading for us? Also about life form outside Earth in Milky Way.
Mar 17th: Just How Tough Is Earth Life?
Every time we send a spacecraft to another world, our Earth-based lifeforms are going with us. No matter how well we try to keep them clean, a few stowaways will always come along for the ride.
Nov 11th: The ATA & Technosignatures With Dr. Sophia Sheikh
Time for Weekly Space News with @WSHCrew. This week the crew discuss about technosignatures with Dr. Sophia Sheikh. Also why NASA is trying to crash on Mars on purpose, a marshmallow world, a star destroyed its planet atmosphere and ancient data finding Uranus rings.
Aug 10th: Looking For Life In All The Strange Places
A trio of stories examines the possibilities for finding life in strange, new places, including deep underground here on Earth, in the subsurface oceans of Europa, and fossilized within sedimentary rocks on Mars.