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...influence on future space exploration missions. Although we do not expect to find evidence of any glow-in-the-dark sea worms in the depths of Enceladus’ ocean, I am incredibly lucky to be able to contribute to research which allows us to investigate the potential for life in the outer Solar System. This article was originally published on the AstrobiologyOU website....

...are able to thrive under the expected conditions on the Red Planet, and most importantly analyse which gases they produce and compare them to the ones we have detected on Mars, and see if maybe, we can find hints to try to answer the question that David Bowie asked in the 70s… Is there life on Mars? This article was originally published on the AstrobiologyOU website....

...back into the warmth of my house, I think about the fact that we soon may have three active rovers and an active lander on Mars – at the same time. And what they might find… This article was originally published on the AstrobiologyOU website. Banner image credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS; processings and mosaic: Olivier de Goursac (fr), 2014, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons...

...article explains these features and the processes that underpin them. ...Discovering a surface made of ice [Black and white photograph of Europa]Figure 1 Image of Europa’s icy surface taken by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe. The surface is cracked, with the cracks filled with material thought to come from beneath the ice.Show descriptionA black and white photograph showing...

...article, Devyani reflects on her experiences of working with POST, in conversation with Ann Grand, a fellow member of AstrobiologyOU. ...Find out more about The Open University's Science courses and qualifications. [Devyani, standing by the Jubilee Fountain in New Palace Yard, to the north-west of the Houses of Parliament. Big Ben behind.]Looking back, what were the...

...Article IX of the Outer Space Treaty (United Nations, 1967). Image description: The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) logo. One of the underlying concepts is that of the ‘period of biological exploration’, which for icy worlds is 1000 years, and that the probability that a robotic mission will operate, and therefore potentially contaminate an icy world in that...