Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the red ...

Earth’s familiar green landscape might not have always been so. According to new scientific research published in the ...

They are the most abundant form of life on Earth, but viruses — or their seed-like dormant state, known as virions — are outliers in our search for life on other planets. Now, one group of scientists ...

Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time, providing a new path toward better understanding the chemical evolution ...

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

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NASA says a full-fledged institute devoted to astrobiology is no longer needed given the maturity of the field, arguing it can be replaced with a looser network of researchers. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON ...

You can't solve a problem until you understand it. When it comes to climate change, on a fundamental level we don't really understand the problem. But the part of climate change we've failed to ...

What is astrobiology? Breaking it down, you see the word “astro” and you immediately relate it to “space”, now you see the word “biology” and you can guess that it means “life”. Putting them together ...