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A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

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Scientists who recently discovered that metal lumps on the dark seabed make oxygen, have announced plans to study the deepest ...

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life.

One idea being followed is to look for things that living things introduce into their environments. In the case of our world ...

Astronomers have discovered 85 possible exoplanets outside the Solar System which could potentially sustain life after ...

Scientists believe those samples — collected from Jezero Crater, the former site of an ancient lake and river delta — might ...

Extraterrestrial Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (Exo-AUVs), could travel through the ice, analyze the ocean, and help find ...

If other potentially habitable desert worlds lost their water in the same way Venus did, it's unlikely that any life could have survived on those planets. The Jawas and Tusken Raiders from "Star ...

So ran the intriguing headline on BBC News (and every other news site ... on every time you ponder the celestial orb that makes life possible… or inflate a party balloon.

New oxygen pathway could reshape life detection methods CO2 and helium ions form molecular oxygen, study shows Oxygen can exist without biological processes on other planets ...