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Life Can Survive on Much Less Water Than You Might Think
Nov 05, 2014 (SPX)
"Follow the water" has long been the mantra of our scientific search for alien life in the Solar System and beyond. We continue seeking conditions where water c...
Planetary Atmospheres a Key to Assessing Possibilities for Life
Nov 05, 2014 (SPX)
A planetary atmosphere is a delicate thing. On Earth, we are familiar with the ozone hole - a tear in our upper atmosphere caused by human-created chemicals tha...
Planet-forming Lifeline Discovered in a Binary Star System
Oct 31, 2014 (SPX)
For the first time, researchers using ALMA have detected a streamer of gas flowing from a massive outer disc toward the inner reaches of a binary star system. T...
Microbes in deep-sea rocks eat methane, lots of it
Oct 16, 2014 (UPI)
Most methane is buried deep in the ground. Some of it, however, bubbles up to escape, and that's good news for methane-loving microbes living in rocks that gath...
Alternative Earths Team To Join NASA Astrobiology Institute
Oct 14, 2014 (SPX)
If we're looking at Mars, or planets in solar systems far, far away, how can we tell whether they support life? Researchers at the University of California, Riv...
Moons Can Help Planets Remain Stable Long Enough for Life to Form
Oct 14, 2014 (NASA)
The Moon is more than just Earth's partner in space - it may have helped stabilize Earth's orbit enough for it to become hospitable for the evolution of complex...
CU-Boulder-led team study origins and evolution of life in universe
Oct 10, 2014 (SPX)
NASA has awarded a team led by the University of Colorado Boulder more than $7 million to study aspects of the origins, evolution, distribution and future of li...
Arctic Bacteria Show Long Evolution in Toxic Mercury Resistance
Oct 08, 2014 (NASA)
With Mars and Europa out of reach, many scientists have turned to studying some of the Arctic and Antarctic microbes that have adapted to similarly harsh condit...
NASA Selects New Science Teams for Astrobiology Research
Oct 08, 2014 (NASA)
NASA has awarded five-year grants totaling almost $50 million to seven research teams nationwide to study the origins, evolution, distribution, and future of li...
Scientists Resurrect Ancient Proteins to Learn about Primordial Life on Earth
Oct 03, 2014 (NASA)
Geological evidence tells us that ancient Earth probably looked and felt very different from the planet we all recognize today. Billions of years ago, our world...
Light Scattering on Dust Holds Clues to Habitability
Sep 30, 2014 (NASA)
We are all made of dust. Dust particles can be found everywhere in space. Disks of dust and debris swirl around and condense to form stars, planets and smaller ...
Heritage of Earth's water gives rise to hopes of life on other planets
Sep 26, 2014 (SPX)
A pioneering new study has shown that water found on Earth predates the formation of the Sun - raising hopes that life could exist on exoplanets, the planets or...
Interstellar molecules are branching out
Sep 26, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (Bonn, Germany), Cornell University (USA), and the University of Cologne (Germany) have for the fir...
What is life? It's a Tricky, Often Confusing Question
Sep 22, 2014 (NASA)
What is life? This is a question that is often asked and typically confused. The confusion starts from the several uses of the word "life" in English. There are...
New Study Revisits Miller-Urey Experiment at the Quantum Level
Sep 15, 2014 (NASA)
For the first time, researchers have reproduced the results of the Miller-Urey experiment in a computer simulation, yielding new insight into the effect of elec...
NASA has some advice for how you can find aliens
Sep 13, 2014 (UPI)
NASA believes it has figured out the best ways to identify alien life. The agency has published new work in the Astrophysical Journal this week explaining its m...
NASA Research Gives Guideline for Future Alien Life Search
Sep 12, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers searching the atmospheres of alien worlds for gases that might be produced by life can't rely on the detection of just one type, such as oxygen, ozo...
DNA May Have Had Humble Beginnings As Nutrient Carrier
Sep 08, 2014 (SPX)
New research intriguingly suggests that DNA, the genetic information carrier for humans and other complex life, might have had a rather humbler origin. In some ...
Hot-spring bacteria reveal ability to use far-red light for photosynthesis
Aug 27, 2014 (SPX)
Bacteria that grow in environments enriched in far-red light use a previously unknown process for harvesting energy. This discovery lays the foundation for furt...
How Titan's Haze Help Us Understand Life's Origins
Aug 26, 2014 (NASA)
Where did life on Earth come from? There are several theories as to what might have happened. Maybe comets came bearing organic material, or life was transporte...
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