Sasselov will discuss the new field of scientific research on the emerging frontier where astronomy meets biochemistry. In the past year, astronomers have discovered planets that resemble Earth around ...

The Quincy Astronomy club meets Thursday night for a lecture by Quincy High School science teacher Jared Holman.

The unresolved question of whether life exists on other planets continues to spark curiosity from the public and the interest of scientists — but one Catholic physicist working on missions to search ...

If life exists on Mars, how would we know? Scientists have been grappling with this deceptively simple question for years. Kenneth Nealson, the Wrigley Professor of Geobiology at the University of ...