News Archive / Tagged: organics

• Forget Mars, NASA considering sending a helicopter to one of Saturn’s moons

  Laurel KornfeldJune 29th, 2019

  NASA announced plans to send a flying rotorcraft to Saturn's moon Titan to study its surface and atmosphere for signs of past and possibly present forms of microbial life.

• New mission given the go-ahead to search for beginning of universe and possibly life

  Laurel KornfeldFebruary 17th, 2019

  A new space probe designed to observe hundreds of millions of galaxies to gain a better grasp on how the universe evolved has just been given the greenlight. This new spacecraft is also being developed to search for water and organics, the elements necessary for life as we know it.

• Ceres’ surface found to contain building blocks for life

  Laurel KornfeldDecember 14th, 2018

  The surface of the dwarf planet Ceres holds high levels of organic material, according to a new study of images returned by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. This provides a tantalizing glimpse into the possibility of life throughout our solar system.

• Saturn’s moon Enceladus has conditions that could support microbial life

  Laurel KornfeldJuly 4th, 2018

  Complex organic molecules have been discovered in the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data transmitted back to Earth by the Cassini Saturn orbiter, which ended its service above the ringed world on Sept. 16, 2017.