EXO LIFE - BIO FUEL DAILY

Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists are digging deep into the Earth's surface collecting census data on the microbial denizens of the hardened rocks. What they're finding is that, even ...

'Goldilocks' clue to habitable planets

Dec 11, 2013 (AFP)

The bad news: Earth's oceans will evaporate away. The good news: It won't happen for another billion years or so. Those are the conclusions of a new study into ...

Odds of alien life 'very high,' House panel hears

Dec 05, 2013 (UPI)

The likelihood of life on other planets is "very high," a planetary scientist told a House committee in a hearing some Democrats chided as evading U.S. issues. ...

December Expedition to Explore Life in Hydrothermal Vent

Dec 03, 2013 (SPX)

While most Americans shop for holiday gifts and break out festive decorations, a team of 18 researchers will spend their holiday season at sea, using underwater...

Glassy Coating Keeps Viruses Happy In Harsh Environments

Nov 18, 2013 (SPX)

What's a virus to do when it finds itself in an inhospitable environment such as hot water? Coating itself in glass seems to not only provide protection, but ma...

No peak in sight for evolving bacteria

Nov 18, 2013 (SPX)

There's no peak in sight - fitness peak, that is - for the bacteria in Richard Lenski's Michigan State University lab. Lenski, MSU Hannah Distinguished Professo...

Theory of Earth's special place in the universe proven unfounded

Nov 07, 2013 (UPI)

A theory that Earth has a special place in the universe and the accelerating expansion of the universe is an illusion has been discounted, U.S. physicists say. ...

Study: Humble clays may have been birthplace of life on Earth

Nov 05, 2013 (UPI)

Clay may have been the birthplace of life on Earth despite being a seemingly infertile and inhospitable blend of minerals, some U.S. scientists say. Life, or at...

Life, but not as we know it

Nov 05, 2013 (SPX)

A rudimentary form of life that is found in some of the harshest environments on earth is able to sidestep normal replication processes and reproduce by the bac...

Aki Roberge - Looking for Life In All the Right Places

Oct 31, 2013 (SPX)

Astrophysicist Aki Roberge is looking for life in all the right places on other planets. What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at God...

Finding alien worlds on Earth

Oct 18, 2013 (ESA)

Have you ever wondered which places on Earth most resemble other planets? For some of us, imagining the landscape of other worlds might just be for fun, but sci...

LSU Researchers Discover How Microbes Survive in Freezing Conditions

Oct 14, 2013 (SPX)

Most microbial researchers grow their cells in petri-dishes to study how they respond to stress and damaging conditions. But, with the support of funding from N...

Methane seeps of the deep sea: A bacteria feast for lithodid crabs

Oct 10, 2013 (SPX)

The bottom of the deep sea is largely deserted. Oases occur for example at cold seeps where water transports dissolved elements from the seabed: Specialized mic...

Vietnam seizes two tonnes of illegal ivory

Oct 09, 2013 (AFP)

Vietnam has seized two tonnes of illegal elephant tusks found stashed in bags of shells being shipped to China, state media reported Wednesday. Customs official...

Search for alien life more complicated than thought, scientists say

Oct 08, 2013 (UPI)

Finding life on distant exoplanets may be more difficult than scientists thought, researchers from China, the United States and Argentina said Monday. Recent ob...

Rensselaer Researchers Propose New Theory To Explain Seeds of Life in Asteroids

Oct 04, 2013 (SPX)

A new look at the early solar system introduces an alternative to a long-taught, but largely discredited, theory that seeks to explain how biomolecules were onc...

The Harshest Habitats on Earth

Sep 26, 2013 (SPX)

As the remotely operated vehicle Jason approached the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, its cameras relayed an eerie scene back to the research vessel Atlantis. ...

UEA scientists reveal Earth's habitable lifetime and investigate potential for alien life

Sep 24, 2013 (SPX)

Habitable conditions on Earth will be possible for at least another 1.75 billion years - according to astrobiologists at the University of East Anglia. Findings...

Should we talk back to ET?

Sep 19, 2013 (SPX)

Right now, radio telescopes are scanning the galaxy for a transmission from extraterrestrials. The SETI Institute and other organizations around the world have ...

Scientists discover cosmic factory for making building blocks of life

Sep 18, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists have discovered a 'cosmic factory' for producing the building blocks of life, amino acids, in research published today in the journal Nature Geoscien...