Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like? Research using machine learning offers a new way
- Written by Amirali Aghazadeh, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Many carbon-rich meteorites contain ingredients commonly found in life, but no evidence of life itself. James St. John, CC BYWhen NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing.
Dust and rock collected from the asteroid Bennu contained many of...
