extraterrestrial life

Researchers suggest that a least 70 percent of Martian lakes have yet to be discovered

New equipment can detect minute amounts of bio-residue on rocks

New study suggests that the Martian subsurface might be a good place to look for possible present-day life on the Red Planet

While commonly associated with life, organic molecules also can be created by non-biological processes and are not necessarily indicators of life

How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year

From the mineral composition of the ancient meteorite, researchers deduced it's likely there was water present on the planet around 4.4 billion years ago

Researchers have developed a fully automated microchip electrophoresis analyzer that, when incorporated into a planetary rover, could someday detect organic biosignatures in extraterrestrial soil

 The detection of phosphine molecules, which consist of hydrogen and phosphorus, could point to this extraterrestrial 'aerial' life

NASA scientists have announced first results from new intelligent systems, to be installed in space probes, capable of identifying geochemical signatures of life from rock samples

Since the flybys by the Voyager and Galileo spacecraft, scientists have held that the surface crust floats on a subsurface ocean