Did meteorite impacts help create life on Earth and beyond?
What if impact craters, long seen as harbingers of death, turned out to be the cradle of life?
Astrobiology
Sep 2, 2020
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Astrobiology
Astrobiologists put Mars Rover life-detecting equipment to the test
Scientists have used the same methods that will soon be used to search for evidence of life on Mars to look for evidence of the earliest forms of life on Earth at a location in South Australia.
Space Exploration
May 4, 2020
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Simulating early ocean vents shows life's building blocks form under pressure
Where did life first form on Earth? Some scientists think it could have been around hydrothermal vents that may have existed at the bottom of the ocean 4.5 billion years ago. In a new paper in the journal Astrobiology, scientists ...
Astrobiology
Apr 16, 2020
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How to detect life on Mars
When MIT research scientist Christopher Carr visited a green sand beach in Hawaii at the age of 9, he probably didn't think that he'd use the little olivine crystals beneath his feet to one day search for extraterrestrial ...
Space Exploration
Jun 18, 2019
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'Fettuccine' may be most obvious sign of life on Mars, researchers report
A rover scanning the surface of Mars for evidence of life might want to check for rocks that look like pasta, researchers report in the journal Astrobiology.
Astrobiology
May 29, 2019
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Scientists tackle major challenges to sending astronauts to search for life on Mars
An international team of researchers, which includes scientists from McMaster's School of Geography & Earth Sciences, NASA, and others, is tackling one of the biggest problems of space travel to Mars: what happens when we ...
Astrobiology
Mar 6, 2019
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Groundwater and precipitation provided water to form Hellas Basin lakes throughout Mars history
The northeastern rim region of Hellas impact basin, located in the southern hemisphere of Mars, contained numerous ephemeral lakes throughout Mars' history, a new study reveals. A new paper published in Astrobiology examines ...
Space Exploration
Nov 2, 2018
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Sharing life with the planets next door
How life could be shared between planets in close proximity to one another has received a greater insight thanks to new analytics based on previously known and new calculations. The findings are allowing researchers to understand ...
Astronomy
Oct 30, 2018
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How geology tells the story of evolutionary bottlenecks and life on Earth
Evidence that catastrophic geological events could have created evolutionary bottlenecks that changed the course of life on Earth may be buried within ancient rocks beneath our feet.
Astronomy
Oct 16, 2018
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Astronomers use Earth's natural history as guide to spot vegetation on new worlds
By looking at Earth's full natural history and evolution, astronomers may have found a template for vegetation fingerprints—borrowing from epochs of changing flora—to determine the age of habitable exoplanets.
Astronomy
Sep 24, 2018
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