NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the ...
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & ...
A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, shows that the physics of alien oceans could prevent evidence of deep-sea life from reaching places where we can detect it.
The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...
“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...
Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these ...
Chase, probe, embrace, flex, push. It’s probably too much information, but that is how krill mate.The behavior was recorded on ...
These tiny creatures may be no bigger than your little finger, but scientists plan to start counting them from space. Knowing ...
A team of scientists have been using the colour of seawater to help count tiny Antarctic sea creatures from miles above. They ...
WWF, the University of Strathclyde and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have teamed up for the pioneering project, which ...