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Microbial Life
Tweet [...] ... imagine if scientists found alien microbes. How would humanity react to the news? By Ben Guarino The Washington Post 12-4-17 Michael Varnum, a psychologist at Arizona Stat…
When the famous 15th-century inventor and scientist Leonardo da Vinci examined petrified shells with borings in them long ago, he had a remarkable insight. The strange fossilized formations, h…
On Monday, after teasing about an announcement concerning "surprising activity" on Jupiter's moon Europa, NASA revealed new evidence from the ice-covered satellite. Look, we told …
Tweet Mars probes have found special regions that could support the growth of hardy microorganisms. Rovers and probes have found special places on Mars where Earth microbes could thrive, risking con…
The discovery of the 3.7 billion-year-old fossil pushes back earliest life on Earth by 220 million years, raising chances that Mars once had life, when both planets were similar. Alister Do…
Twenty years ago, NASA scientists and their colleagues announced they had spotted possible signs of Mars life in a meteorite. The claim ignited a scientific controversy that lingers to this da…
Traces of manganese found in rocks on Mars could be indicators that there was once oxygen on the Red Planet. There are a lot of rocks on Mars, and most of them wouldn’t raise an By Joseph …
Dark streaks on the surface of Mars may indicate that liquid water flows there today. A new study has revealed more detail about the changes these briny trails are causing on the Martian surfa…
By Sarah Scoles smithsonian.com 2-1-16 Unusual silica formations spotted by a NASA rover look a lot like structures formed by microbes around geysers on Earth The hunt for signs of life on Ma…
Tweet By Robert Pappalardo The Huffington Post 5-29-15 This week we are one step closer to understanding a world in our solar system that I believe has the best chance of supporting life be…
