Scientists with expertise in geophysics at Washington State University have developed an alternative pathway for the transport of nutrients to the deep ocean under Europa’s exterior surface. Europa, ...
NASA Juno mission captured amazing new imagery of Jupiter's moon Europa. The spacecraft flew about 219 miles (352 kilometers) ...
Europa hides one of the most intriguing environments in the solar system beneath its frozen surface. This story traces how ...
Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...
In the eastern Utah desert, carbon-dioxide-saturated water bubbles, sprays and foams from the ground. These cold-water geysers, sometimes called soda pop geysers, are a new and reliable Earth-based ...
The NASA Juno mission has given deeper insights into the possible alien life on Jupiter's moon, Europa, and how it could lie beneath its icy shell.
Future missions to Mars may want to dig into ice rather than rock. Scientists say ancient microbes, or traces of them, could be locked inside Martian ...
Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we ...
Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...
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