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SwRI Institute Scientist Dr. Simone Marchi created this artistic rendering of early Earth, which shows a surface pummeled…
NASA Finds New Way Earth May Have Received Elements Needed for Life
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From Collaboration to Curation: Building NASA Astrobiology’s Living Bibliography in SciX
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AGU Astrobiology Special: Icy Worlds Get New Planetary Protection Guidelines
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NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #1,199 8 May 2026 (Space Life Science Research Results)
The abstract in PubMed or at the publisher’s site is linked when available and will open in a…
NASA Research Shows Early Life Relied on Rare Metal
NASA-funded scientists have discovered that life on Earth over 3 billion years ago relied on the metal molybdenum,…
Scientists Stunned by New Organic Molecules Found on Mars
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Summer School: Icy Bodies and Life in Tartu, Estonia
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Why Most Alien Worlds May Be Too Dry for Life
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NASA’s Perseverance, Curiosity Panoramas Capture Two Sides of Mars
Learn how NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers are exploring different chapters of the Red Planet’s ancient history.…
Water D/H in 3I/ATLAS as a probe of formation conditions in another planetary system
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