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One of the most exciting places to study resilient microbes, that survive without sunlight, is Europa, a moon of Jupiter, ...

For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

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Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form ...

"Matthew Evans has had a fascinating life, originally the restaurant critic for the Sydney Morning Herald, he became a chef, ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array has detected methanol isotopes around a nearby star, which could help explain why the ingredients for life are present on Earth.