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There’s Something Living In the Rocky Crust Beneath the Ocean Floor
Deep-ocean microbes could help us look for life on other planets.
Could Known Lifeforms Survive in Mars's Newly Discovered Flowing Water?
Is Mars's environment really all that different from Earth's?
These Scientists Say There Could Be Life on Rosetta’s Comet
It's a radical explanation for Comet 67P's features.
We Might Create Alien Life in a Lab Before We Find It in Space
“We could make something that has a different operating system than life today,” says synthetic biologist Lynn J Rothschild.
Life at The Limits: Showcasing Nature’s Weirdest Adaptations
From the mantis shrimp’s bullet-punch to the corpse flower’s stank.
The Habitable Zone for Exoplanets May Be 14 Times Wider Than We Thought
A new study suggests subterranean life can survive far beyond the 'Goldilocks zone.' In our own solar system the area would include the moons of Saturn and Uranus.
Bacteria Survive in Freezing Antarctic Lakes By Sharing DNA
Up to 85 percent of the deepwater bacteria's DNA is identical, scientists have discovered.
Hunting for Signs of Alien Life on Mars, Burying Them Here on Earth
As far as NASA scientific missions go, the Curiosity rover is an easy sell: hunting for signs of life. Though, omitted from many headlines I've seen is that we're actually more looking for signs of past life or, even more likely, signs that Mars was...
Jill Tarter Has Just Spent 35 Years Leading the Hunt for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Interview
Jill Tarter has been leading the hunt for extra-terrestrial life at SETI for the past 35 years. On May 22, she announced that she would be stepping down, leaving a search that's become more helpful that ever since the discoveries of thousands of...