According to an ancient Korean myth, fire dogs sent by a power hungry king attempt to steal the fiery sun or ice cold moon. When they bite either orb, an eclipse results. But on August 21st, as ...

O/OREOS rode into orbit aboard a four-stage Air Force Minotaur IV rocket. Also aboard were the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Test ProgramSat-2 (STPSat-2), NASA's Fast, Affordable ...

The Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses, or O/OREOS, nanosatellite managed by NASA’s Ames Research Center, successfully launched at 5:25 p.m. PST on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, from Alaska ...

All of this produces not just confusion but acronym fatigue. Nonetheless, interesting science is in the works. O/OREOS is all about conducting astrobiology science experiments on the cheap using ...

Astrobiology is also more than a marketing slogan, thanks to recent discoveries that do indeed give astrobiologists a subject matter to study. By far the most important, the Allan Hills meteorite, a 1 ...

Editor’s Note: Charles Cockell is Professor of Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the UK Centre for Astrobiology. He was a National Academy of Sciences Associate at the ...

A type of lichen was able to survive extreme UV radiation in the lab, suggesting that ozone protection might not be required for life on exoplanets.

Overall, the team's "power reduction first" design offers a cost-effective, lower-mass, and simplified concept for an astrobiology mission to Enceladus in the coming decades.

Research conducted at the Astrobiology Space Simulation Facility of the Institute of Aerospace Medicine of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) in Cologne is ...

NASA’s early monkey experiments aimed to study how mammals handle space travel. Some primates exhibited surprising adaptability, adjusting their movements and physiology to microgravity conditions.

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – The Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses, or O/OREOS, nanosatellite managed by NASA’s Ames Research Center, successfully launched at 5:25 p.m. PST on Fr… ...