Tag: exobiology
Exobiology: a glimpse of life on Mars in Canada?
Lots of salt. Cold. And almost no oxygen. Extreme conditions that resemble the characteristics of certain Martian regions. However, they are those of a very earthly source. A source on…
Exobiology: oxygen in the ocean of Europa, the moon of Jupiter?
At a time when the search for life elsewhere than on Earth will enter a new phase with the James Webb telescopeit is worth recalling that in the early 1980s,…
Exobiology: the colors of icy exoplanets would betray colonies of microbes
The determination of reliable biosignatures that would at least allow us to think that an exoplanet very probably hosts forms of life similar to those known on Earth is not…
The Webb Space Telescope will be on the lookout for interstellar objects passing through the Solar System
From the first discs of planetary debris discovered in 1983 by theInfrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) around the four stars Vega, Beta PictorisFomalhaut and Epsilon Eridani to the protoplanetary discs studied…
The James-Webb will study the next interstellar ‘Oumuamua crossing the Solar System
From the first discs of planetary debris discovered in 1983 by theInfrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) around the four stars Vega, Beta PictorisFomalhaut and Epsilon Eridani to the protoplanetary discs studied…
Mars: large quantities of water discovered under the largest canyon in the solar system
There should be no water on the surface of Mars at the equator, and very little there just below that surface. And yet the instruments of the Exomars mission say…
172 new exoplanets, including 18 systems, in the net of astronomers!
There are currently nearly 5,000 confirmed exoplanets. And astronomers keep finding new candidates. Still in the archives of the Kepler Space Telescope today. They report the discovery of no less…