Bruce Dorminey

Rocky planets that are about earth-size, or maybe two to three times larger, will offer the best ... [+] chances for simple microbial life, says geodynamicist.

ESA's ExoMars rover will likely see its way to the red planet’s surface before NASA and ESA return NASA’s Perseverance rover’s samples back to earth.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ambitious PLATO mission, due for launch in December 2026, has been enabled in large part by an innovative, cross-cultural collaboration.

artist's interpretation of the red planet getty Microbes are clever little buggers —- for decades, they've been used by the mining

Full view of Mars NASA The hunt for past life on Mars has been an astrobiological obsession of the last three decades.

Artist's interpretation of Titan's hydrocarbon lakes near its north pole. Saturn is pictured in the ... [+] upper right of the illustration.

The author in the dome of the 1.65 meter telescope at Lithuania's Moletai Astronomical Observatory. Bruce Dorminey

An artist's concept of early earth as a pale orange dot some 4 billion years ago. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Francis Reddy

A trail after a meteorite exploded in the sky over Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation February 15, 2013 getty

MOUNT SHARP, MARS - JANUARY 2015: In this handout provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS This ... [+] self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows