If life exists on other planets, it needs to be adaptable to extreme environments. To get a clue of what it might look like, ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

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“Our framework applies not only to Earth, but also other planets, increasing the possibility that life similar to ours could exist elsewhere.” The proposals of the paper, published in the peer ...

A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany ...

Astronomers have discovered that sulfur may be a key to helping us narrow down our search for life on other planets. It's not ...

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“Life might have originated very quickly once ... Astronomers could continue their observations of other planets to see how many host one of the hard step candidates, like oxygen-producing ...

Rather than basing their study on the sun’s lifespan, the researchers say our origins—and that of other intelligent life in the universe—could have been a natural outcome of our planet’s ...

Our framework applies not only to Earth, but also other planets, increasing the possibility that life similar to ours could exist elsewhere.” ...

Conversely, the absence of significant sulfur dioxide may indicate a planet worth further observation for signs of water vapor and potential life. The quest to find life on other planets will ...

Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images Astronomers have discovered that sulfur may be a key to helping us narrow down our search for life on other planets. It's not that sulfur is ...