Hot methane seeps could support life beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet todayheadline

Researchers collecting rock samples in Antarctica in the 1960sPolar Rock Repository Microbes living beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet may survive on ...

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Astronomers claim strongest evidence of alien life yet todayheadline

April 17, 2025

Artist’s impression of the planet K2-18b and its host starESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser Astronomers claim to have seen the strongest evidence ...

Space Exploration

Is There Potential for Life on Europa? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 52

February 25, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfzmpIOVpf4 That’s a great question. And it’s a question that NASA will seek to answer with the Europa Clipper spacecraft. ...

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Scientists find life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu samples

January 31, 2025

The asteroid 101955 Bennu appears in this mosaic of images captured by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona The ...

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reaches Top of Jezero Crater Rim

December 12, 2024

The road ahead will be even more scientifically intriguing, and probably somewhat easier-going, now that the six-wheeler has completed its ...

Image of Mars showing the Acidalia Planitia as a darker region towards the top right

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Life on Mars could be surviving in an area deep underground todayheadline

November 29, 2024

The Acidalia Planitia, the darker region towards the top right of this image of Mars, may host bacteria deep beneath ...

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Bacteria found in asteroid sample – but they're not from space

November 22, 2024

Bacteria on a sample from the Ryugu asteroid, viewed with an electron microscopeMatthew J. Genge et al. 2024 A rock ...

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