Bruce Dorminey

After only four short years, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and observational cosmologists like Richard Ellis at University College

Venus' bizarre and extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation on its axis has long puzzled planetary scientists.

Despite continual habitability headlines, the debate over whether Mars ever had or currently has life still rages.

After decades of analyzing reams of lunar rocks back here on Earth, the canonical view of the Moon was that it was anhydrous; that it had extraordinarily little water.

How life started on our own planet may not seem as sexy as finding evidence for life on Mars, or the icy moons of Europa or Enceladus.

Tiny fossils from Earth's deep past may reveal when cellular complexity first emerged. Their survival could reshape both evolutionary history and astrobiology. Credit: Shutterstock

Astrobiology is at its core an interdisciplinary endeavor. But frustratingly, there is still not enough cross communication between

Push back the tape of Earth's history, and both geologists and astrobiologists remain roundly perplexed as to the environmental conditions of our earliest Earth.

This is an image of the 2024 version of the MMX spacecraft during MOI (Martian Orbit Insertion). Credit: JAXA

Malta might be the last place one might expect there to be a convergence of archeoastronomy and early cosmology.