Could the chemical fingerprints of life really persist for billions of years, hidden in rocks reshaped by eons of heat and ...

A tiny salmon parasite has become the first animal proven to survive without oxygen, overturning long-held biology ...

Combining analytical chemistry with machine learning doubled the age of ancient rocks that can be examined for signs of ...

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Common moss spores survived nine months bolted to the outside of the International Space Station, paving the way toward space ...

In preparation for and as an input to the upcoming decadal surveys in astronomy and astrophysics and planetary science, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will appoint an ad ...

Early trials suggest the system can pick up faint traces left behind by ancient organisms that would otherwise go unnoticed.

Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints of living organisms in ancient rocks, an approach that also holds promise in ...

Scientists uncover new evidence of early life on Earth using advanced molecular analysis and machine learning.

Scientists have developed a new way to hunt for hidden signals of past life, and say it could assist in the search for extraterrestrial organisms on other planets.

Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists today published fresh chemical evidence of Earth’s earliest life – concealed in 3.3-billion-year-old ...