Scientists simulated an asteroid impact, and Deinococcus radiodurans’ cell membranes made it through. This suggests that life-forms flung into space by violent impacts may have colonized planets and ...
The universe is a place of unimaginable beauty and wonder—shimmering galaxies that dance across the cosmic stage, nebulae ...
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Watch the ocean’s most alien creature – and what it can do
The cuttlefish may be one of the strangest animals in the ocean. With specialized skin cells called chromatophores, it can change color and pattern almost instantly, blending into its surroundings or ...
Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...
We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detectors that SETI utilizes, a new study suggests.
Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific Reports. Treating simulated lunar soil with both symbiotic fungi and ...
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Mars orbiters witness solar superstorm striking the Red Planet: 'The timing was extremely lucky'
The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.
Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...
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