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Universe's first life might have been born on carbon planets
Jun 09, 2016 (SPX)
Our Earth consists of silicate rocks and an iron core with a thin veneer of water and life. But the first potentially habitable worlds to form might have been v...
Microbes in Space: JPL Researcher Explores Tiny Life
Jun 07, 2016 (JPL)
On May 11, a sealed capsule containing fungi and bacteria fell from the sky and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. Microbiologist Kasthuri Venkateswaran could ...
Studying life on the rocks
Jun 01, 2016 (SPX)
Much of modern life is deeply impacted by the behavior of ice. Now, new work from a team at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in Palisades...
Rosetta's comet contains ingredients for life
May 31, 2016 (ESA)
Ingredients regarded as crucial for the origin of life on Earth have been discovered at the comet that ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has been probing for almost two ...
Comet contains glycine, key part of recipe for life
May 27, 2016 (AFP)
An important amino acid called glycine has been detected in a comet for the first time, supporting the theory that these cosmic bodies delivered the ingredients...
Life on Ceres? Mysterious Changes in the Bright Spots Still Baffle Scientists
May 27, 2016 (SPX)
Bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres continue to puzzle researchers. When recently a team of astronomers led by Paolo Molaro of the Trieste Astronomical Obser...
Evolution: Building blocks of life
May 19, 2016 (SPX)
Biological evolution was preceded by a long phase of chemical evolution during which precursors of biopolymers accumulated. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU...
Hunting for Hidden Life on Worlds Orbiting Old, Red Stars
May 18, 2016 (SPX)
All throughout the universe, there are stars in varying phases and ages. Planetary diversity suggests that around other stars, initially frozen worlds could be ...
We'll Leave the Lights on for You
May 18, 2016 (SPX)
Looking up at the night sky - expansive and seemingly endless, stars and constellations blinking and glimmering like jewels just out of reach - it's impossible ...
Observing how microbes adapt in a spaceflight environment
May 12, 2016 (SPX)
Many people know that the International Space Station is a unique microgravity research laboratory in low-Earth orbit where astronauts conduct experiments in bi...
Natural Causes, Not Aliens, Explain Mystery Star's Behavior
May 11, 2016 (SPX)
Sorry, E.T. lovers, but the results of a new study make it far less likely that KIC 8462852, popularly known as Tabby's star, is the home of industrious aliens ...
Comet craters - literal melting pots for life on Earth
May 09, 2016 (SPX)
Geochemists from Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences may have found a solution to a long-debated problem as to where - and how - life first form...
Hiding in the Sunshine: The Search for Other Earths
Apr 29, 2016 (JPL)
We humans might not be the only ones to ponder our place in the universe. If intelligent aliens do roam the cosmos, they too might ask a question that has gripp...
Are we alone? Setting some limits to our uniqueness
Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)
Are humans unique and alone in the vast universe? This question - summed up in the famous Drake equation - has for a half-century been one of the most intractab...
Could Earth's light blue color be a signature of life?
Apr 28, 2016 (SPX)
In 1990, Voyager 1 captured the most distant portrait of our planet ever taken, revealing that from beyond Pluto's orbit, Earth appears as nothing more than a "...
Hydrothermal systems show spectrum of extreme life on Earth
Apr 28, 2016 (SPX)
The Danakil Depression in Ethiopia is one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. Water at near-boiling temperatures bubbles up from underground, high salt co...
Sorting the wheat from the chaff
Apr 20, 2016 (SPX)
Physicists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich report that temperature gradients within pores in rock could have separated primitive biopolymer...
In these microbes, iron works like oxygen
Apr 19, 2016 (SPX)
A pair of papers from a UW-Madison geoscience lab shed light on a curious group of bacteria that use iron in much the same way that animals use oxygen: to soak ...
Artificial comet holds clues to the origin of life
Apr 12, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have for the first time shown that ribose, a sugar that is one of the building blocks of genetic material in living organisms, may have formed in co...
The 'R' in RNA is likely abundant in space, scientists say
Apr 08, 2016 (UPI)
By simulating conditions in space, scientists in France say they found ribose -- the 'R' in RNA -- is potentially present throughout the universe. Scientists ha...
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