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Nasa said that the findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

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Most life on Earth depends on oxygen—but not these creatures! From deep-sea organisms to microscopic marvels, these 9 animals ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission discovered molecules vital to life and a history of saltwater on asteroid Bennu. The findings ...

Organic molecules – including amino acids absent in known biology – salts, and nucleotides were found in the historic ...

UCSB's Professor David Tilman just recieved the National Medal of Science for revealing the importance of biodiversity.

Discover how scientists blend biology, synthetic biology, and astrobiology to speculate on alien life forms, focusing on the ...

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a ...

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Students with a background in life sciences or engineering/physical sciences will receive foundation training in engineering or biology, respectively. This will be followed by around six weeks of ...