After a recent count, NASA Citizen Science is proud to report that more than 650 people who have volunteered to participate in NASA citizen science projects

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Biofilms: from the cradle of life to life support

ALT: a man is sitting at a table with a stick in his hand

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

The public and commercial space industries are planning longer duration and more distant space missions, including the establishment of a habitable lunar base and crewed missions to Mars. These missio...

Genomics is an increasingly important part of biology research. However, educating undergraduates in genomics is not yet a standard part of life sciences curricula. We believe this is, in part, due to...

npj Microgravity - Space exploration and risk of Parkinson’s disease: a perspective review

As the field of space biology continues to generate vast amounts of data, the ability to effectively analyze and interpret this information is becoming

Two of the scientists who won this year’s Nobel Prize for cracking the code of proteins’ intricate structures relied, in part, on a series of computing