Viruses play essential roles in shaping the structure and function of microbial communities, including those inhabiting extreme environments.
MBRSC astronaut Mohammad AlMulla took pictures of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli while she was conducting a microbiological investigation close to the underground base camp in Abel Cave.
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies the highest priority science objectives for the first human mission to Mars, and says searching for evidence […]
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How natural environments transition from uninhabited to inhabited is an incompletely understood question in ecology.
How does NASA prepare to explore the Moon, Mars and Ocean Worlds? For scientists like Bethany Theiling, it starts by venturing into Earth’s most extreme spots.
University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science — the origin of life on Earth.
The Extraterrestrial Materials Academy (ETMA) is scheduled for June 8–August 15, 2026, at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, Texas, in partnership with the University of Houston–Clear Lake […]
The emergence of eukaryotes from a merger between an archaeon and a bacterial cell ~two billion years ago involved a profound change in cellular organisation.
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter – Volume 48 No. 2 November 2025
