Water, the cradle of life as we understand it, is no longer unique to Earth. From subsurface oceans on frozen moons to water vapor in extraterrestrial atmospheres, NASA's findings are redefining what ...

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that urea—an essential building block for life—could have formed on the early ...

What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study ...

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

How did complex life survive when Earth was frozen over? Scientists say tiny meltwater ponds on ancient ice may have been the ...

Scientists from MIT studied how organisms live in modern Antarctic meltwater ponds to predict how similar organisms would ...

Water may have come to earth by way of comets and asteroids. Anastasia Mastrakouli. Morning dew ... Where does water, a giver and taker of life on planet Earth, come from?

Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen ...

A global ocean color shift is underway, with greener waters near the poles and bluer seas in the tropics, impacting many ...

At APL, a team is developing portable tech to detect ocean species using eDNA. Their goal: real-time, low-cost monitoring to ...

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