If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In fact, it would be ...

In A Nutshell Ancient frozen chemistry: New analysis of pristine samples from asteroid Bennu suggests its amino acids formed ...

In A Nutshell Mars was erupting while T. rex roamed Earth: A Martian volcano system was active between 64 and 50 million ...

Organic compounds discovered on the Red Planet cannot be fully explained by non-biological sources, say astrobiologists.

The night lit up with blue and green flames on Feb. 10 as a fireball meteor streaked across the skies in Ohio. See the videos ...

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The compounds — decane, undecane, and ...

Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment while floating in weightlessness. In a carefully controlled experiment on the ...

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Microbes could be the future space miners, helping humans survive on long-term missions by ...

Andrew Oddy looks back on his career as Keeper of Conservation at the British Museum and the exposure test that bears his name ...

New Delhi, Feb 10: Consistent with past academic years which had proved effective in ensuring maximum seat utilisation, the ...