Ocean hydrothermal vents constitute chemically driven oases of life that fundamentally differ from photosynthesis-based ...

NASA OSMA] NASA’s new Microbial Forward Contamination Evaluation (M‑FORCE) Tiger Team recently met at the NASA Safety Center ...

Hurry up and wait.” Anyone who works in the polar regions knows the phrase, and knows the experience: storms, blowing snow, and low visibility set the schedule. Shortly after we arrived in Cape Town, ...

High-resolution cross-correlation spectroscopy (HRCCS) is a powerful technique for detecting molecules whose individual spectral lines ...

Science China Press] Earth’s magnetic field is generated by the convection of liquid iron in the outer core. It forms a ...

Viruses are the most abundant known biological entities in the ocean and play central role in microbial ecology.

The Pandora SmallSat is a NASA flight project designed to study the atmospheres of exoplanets. Transmission spectroscopy of ...

It is commonly found in meteorites and evidence of FeS has only been reported in solid form in a protoplanetary environment.

This study reveals that the cell, upon complete cell death, undergoes reversion to a living entity simpler than the cell itself – the Meta Body (MB). The discovery of MB opens an entire ...

Subsurface oceans inside icy moons are expected to contain dissolved salts whose crystallization controls the mineralogy of their hydrospheres and potentially their surfaces.

New research from the University of St Andrews has uncovered a thus unknown process which may have helped drive the Earth in to past ice ages.

The first observations of short-period rocky exoplanets have initiated the era of terrestrial exoplanet characterization ...