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Bookmark or Share- Living in Space - NASALearn more about living in space. From the challenges of providing optimal nutrition to managing the risks posed by microgravity, scientists and engineers from NASA work to predict, assess, and solve the problems that humans encounter in space.
- About Astrobiology | AstrobiologyAstrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the universe. Ask most anyone whether life exists on other planets and moons, and the answer you’ll get is a confident “yes!” Going back decades (and in many ways generations), we’ve been introduced to a menagerie of extraterrestrials good and bad.
- Life in the Universe: What are the Odds? - Science@NASAWhile the chances of finding life elsewhere remain unknown, the odds can be said to be improving. A well-known list of the data needed to determine the likely abundance of life-bearing worlds, though highly conjectural, is known as the “Drake equation.”
- NASA Biological & Physical Sciences - NASA ScienceNASA’s Biological and Physical Sciences mission is to lead the world in fundamental space-based research, pioneer transformational discoveries, enable sustained human space exploration, and improve life on Earth and in space.
- Life on Other Planets: What is Life and What Does It Need?On Earth, that “something” is life, pumping more of each into the atmosphere and keeping it out of balance. Such an imbalance, in these compounds or others, could be detected on a distant exoplanet, suggesting the presence of a living biosphere.
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