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New technique finetunes quest for life on other worlds
Jul 04, 2013 (AFP)
European astronomers said on Friday they had devised a technique to detect water in the atmosphere of planets orbiting other stars. Using a telescope in Chile, ...
Cloud modeling expands estimate of life-supporting planets
Jul 04, 2013 (SPX)
A new study that calculates the influence of cloud behavior on climate doubles the number of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs, the most common ...
Cloud effect could increase number of possible life-supporting planets
Jul 01, 2013 (UPI)
The climate influence of clouds could double the number of potentially habitable planets orbiting the most common type of stars, U.S. scientists say. Astrophysi...
Researchers call for rethinking efforts to prevent interplanetary contamination
Jul 01, 2013 (SPX)
Two university researchers say environmental restrictions have become unnecessarily restrictive and expensive-on Mars. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience,...
It's a bug's life: Microbes to inherit the Earth
Jul 01, 2013 (AFP)
Two billion years from now, an ever-hotter Sun will have cooked the Earth, leaving microbes confined to pockets of water in mountains or caves as the last survi...
A Stepping-Stone for Oxygen on Earth
Jun 28, 2013 (SPX)
For most terrestrial life on Earth, oxygen is necessary for survival. But the planet's atmosphere did not always contain this life-sustaining substance, and one...
Catch that bug!
Jun 26, 2013 (ESA)
Spiders, beetles and worms might look creepy, but these creatures tell us a lot about biodiversity. Students are being challenged to count the creepy-crawlies' ...
Antifreeze on Titan Could Affect Its Chances for Life
Jun 21, 2013 (SPX)
Antifreeze normally helps prevent freezing, but scientists find a common antifreeze compound that might exist on Saturn's largest moon Titan can get trapped wit...
Biological Soil Crust Secrets Uncovered
Jun 18, 2013 (SPX)
They lie dormant for years, but at the first sign of favorable conditions they awaken. This sounds like the tagline for a science fiction movie, but it describe...
Zoe Robot Returns To Atacama In Search For Subsurface Life
Jun 14, 2013 (SPX)
The autonomous, solar-powered Zoe, which became the first robot to map microbial life during a 2005 field expedition in Chile's Atacama Desert, is heading back ...
Tiny Submersible Could Search for Life in Europa's Ocean
Jun 13, 2013 (SPX)
One of the first visitors to Jupiter's icy moon of Europa could be a tiny submarine barely larger than two soda cans. The small craft might help strike the righ...
Life underground
Jun 13, 2013 (SPX)
Microbes are living more than 500 feet beneath the seafloor in 5 million-year-old sediment, according to new findings by researchers at the University of Delawa...
Solving a 3.5 Billion-Year-Old Mystery
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobio...
Infrared Photosynthesis: A Potential Power Source for Alien Life in Sunless Places
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
Photosynthesis-the harvesting of sunlight to produce energy-is the ultimate driver of virtually all life on the surface of our planet. Most photosynthetic creat...
Cassini sees precursors to aerosol 'snow' on Titan
Jun 06, 2013 (ESA)
Scientists have confirmed the presence of PAHs - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons - in the upper atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The study, based on...
Life on Earth shockingly comes from out of this world
Jun 06, 2013 (SPX)
Early Earth was not very hospitable when it came to jump starting life. In fact, new research shows that life on Earth may have come from out of this world. Law...
Thermal limit for animal life redefined by first lab study of deep-sea vent worms
May 30, 2013 (SPX)
Forty-two may or may not be the answer to everything, but it likely defines the temperature limit where animal life thrives, according to the first laboratory s...
Scientists Find Possible Solution to an Ancient Enigma
May 29, 2013 (SPX)
The widespread disappearance of stromatolites, the earliest visible manifestation of life on Earth, may have been driven by single-celled organisms called foram...
Arctic bacteria found living in Mars-like environment
May 23, 2013 (UPI)
Scientists say they've found bacteria growing in the Canadian arctic at temperatures below freezing, nearly as cold as the surface of Mars. Growing at just 5 de...
A Roadmap for the Future of Astrobiology
May 23, 2013 (SPX)
The NASA Astrobiology Program has started the process of outlining future research directions at the organization. Roughly every ten years, the program updates ...
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