astrobiology Archives – Page 5 of 5

Blue-green algae's response to different nitrogen pressures may tell us what fossils to look for and what those fossils tell us about…

We’ve all heard of hunting for fossils to learn about the Earth’s past, but what if you wanted to learn about the microbes that lived…

Here on Earth, scientists study layers of sediment like dirt and sand to better understand how rocks form. The same contextual clues…

What was the weather like in New York last week? You can look it up on weather.com. What was it like on March 7, 1953, in the pre-internet…

Evolution explains how living things change over successive generations, giving rise to diversity. Across the evolutionary history of Earth,…

Thanks to NASA’s Kepler Mission, over one-thousand potentially habitable exoplanets have been discovered to-date, orbiting around their…

No living organism can survive in the dead of space, right? The unlikely exception: water bears. Also known by their scientific name,…

If there are multiple universes, which of them are capable of harboring life and why? A physicist comes up with a number, and that number is…

Water is essential for life. When searching for life in the universe, the first thing researchers do is “follow the water”. Mars is no…