New Rochelle, NY, The success of a robotic drilling mission to search for subsurface life has demonstrated that robotic core sampling combined with remote laboratory analysis is both technically ...

Contact: Vicki Cohn, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., (914) 740-2100, ext. 2156, vcohn@liebertpub.com New Rochelle, July 5, 2006 – The production of chemically reactive oxidants on the surface of Mars and icy ...

Magnetotactic bacteria can form magnetofossils like magnetic nanocrystals as observed in the Martian meteorite ALH84001, which held a special place in the field of astrobiology primarily in the early ...

New Rochelle, October 4, 2011–The glassy, porous, and once gas-rich rock called pumice may have given rise to early life forms, according to a provocative new hypothesis on the origin of life ...

An ultrasensitive, broadband millimetre spectral survey reveals the presence of erythrulose, a chiral four-carbon sugar, in the interstellar medium. Quantum chemical and astrochemical simulations ...

New Rochelle, August 22, 2006 – “Dark spiders” on the surface of Mars might be explained by seasonal temperature changes that melt surface ice and salt, causing erosion, according to a provocative new ...

New Rochelle, January 23, 2014—The search for extraterrestrial life extends far beyond Earth's solar system, looking for planets or moons outside the "stellar habitable zone" that may have ...

International Journal of Astrobiology] We propose a novel method for estimating possible biological evolutionary stage on ...

Tomonori Totani, an astrobiologist with the University of Tokyo is proposing that the search for life beyond Earth be expanded to the study of space dust. In his paper published in the journal ...

Bacterial spores have been considered as microbial life that could survive interplanetary transport by natural impact processes or human spaceflight activity. Deposition of terrestrial microbes or ...

Evidence of Ancient Hot Springs on Mars Detailed in Astrobiology Journal New Rochelle, NY, February 12, 2009 –Data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) suggest the discovery of ancient springs ...