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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 11 January 2026: Overland Traverse To Lake Untersee (Update)

by Keith Cowing

Update: Dale and his team are now at Lake Untersee at S 71.260082° E 13.506017° at an elevation of 2,645 ft. Picture below. Dale Andersen and his team are now […]

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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 7 January 2026: Arrival In Antarctica

by Keith Cowing

Keith’s note: I got this update by text from Dale early this morning:

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Jupiter’s Moon Europa Has A Seafloor That May Be Quiet And Lifeless

by Keith Cowing

The giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, yet none have captured the interest and imagination of astronomers and space scientists quite like Europa, an ice-shrouded world that is […]

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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen’s Antarctic Field Report: 5 January 2026: Preparing to Leave Cape Town For The Ice

by Keith Cowing

Keith The team and all of our gear and cargo made it to Cape Town, which feels especially welcoming right now—warm, bright, and easy to settle into. Over Table Mountain, […]

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The Deepest Gas Hydrate Cold Seep Ever Discovered In The Arctic

by Keith Cowing

A multinational scientific team led by UiT has uncovered the deepest known gas hydrate cold seep on the planet. The discovery was made during the Ocean Census Arctic Deep – EXTREME24 expedition […]

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HKUST Launches World’s First Deep-sea Multi-omics Resource Platform Empowering Global Research Into Biological Adaptation In Extreme Environments

by Keith Cowing

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), has launched the world’s first Deep Ocean Omics (DOO) […]

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Subsurface Life On Earth As A Key To Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries

by Keith Cowing

The first forms of life on Earth were microbial, preceding the evolution of multicellular life by more than two billion years.

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A Slash Across Layered Deposits At Mars’ North Pole

by Keith Cowing

Here, a straight-line feature cuts across many layers, seemingly changing their brightness and presumably indicating a major change in the layer properties.

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Nitrogen- And Oxygen-Rich Organic Material Indicative Of Polymerization In Pre-aqueous Cryochemistry On Bennu’s Parent Body

by Keith Cowing

Nitrogen-containing organic compounds play key biological roles, and their identification in primitive astromaterials such as meteorites can shed light on the origin of life.

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