Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

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Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant ...

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Castlewood Canyon State Park in Franktown, Colorado is one of those places that makes you do a double-take and wonder if ...

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You’ve probably followed the Mars rover missions on and off for years, watching those red-dust landscapes scroll across your ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent roughly six months exploring a geological feature on Mars known as boxwork: a vast network of low rock ridges, about 3–6 feet (1–2 meters) tall, crisscrossing the ...

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'This thing looked very smooth on the outside.' ...

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...