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New Technique for Finding Life on Mars

January 22, 2018

Researchers use multiple, miniature instruments to directly detect and analyze life in the Canadian high Arctic, one of ...

Ingredients for Life Revealed in Meteorites That Fell to Earth

January 12, 2018

Study, based in part at Berkeley Lab, also suggests dwarf planet in asteroid belt may be a source of rich organic matter...

Genes in Space-3 Successfully Identifies Unknown Microbes in Space

January 2, 2018

First-ever sample-to-sequence process entirely aboard the space station

Scientist Crowdsources Rocks Harboring Earthly “Extraterrestrials”

November 13, 2017

Biologist expands pursuit of desert-dwelling microbes

Ancient Tsunami Evidence on Mars Reveals Life Potential

May 20, 2016

"It is difficult to imagine Californian beaches on ancient Mars, but try to picture the Great Lakes on a particularly cold an...

Scientists Discover Potentially Habitable Planets

May 3, 2016

Just 40 light years from Earth, planets are best targets so far for search for extraterrestrial life

Are We Alone? Setting Some Limits to Our Uniqueness

April 28, 2016

Paper shows for the first time just what “pessimism” or “optimism” mean when it comes to estimat...

Missing Links Brewed in Primordial Puddles?

April 25, 2016

Researchers have gained new insights into how components of RNA and DNA formed from chemicals present on early Earth bef...

What If Extraterrestrial Observers Called, but Nobody Heard?

March 2, 2016

If such observers are using the same search methods that scientists are using on Earth, researchers propose that humanity sho...

Examining How Terrestrial Life's Building Blocks May Have First Formed

February 4, 2016

Scientists look to outer space to understand how life's building blocks first formed

The Aliens Are Silent Because They're Dead

January 25, 2016

"Early life is fragile, so we believe it rarely evolves quickly enough to survive," ANU researchers say.

Nearing the Limits of Life on Earth

January 20, 2016

Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars

Spectrum of Life

June 24, 2015

Nonphotosynthetic pigments could be biosignatures of life on other worlds.

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