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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen’s Antarctic Field Report: Preview: 2026 Lake Untersee Field Season

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Subzero Cell Division, Respiration, And Genomic Traits Of Cryophilic Arthrobacter agilis Ant-EH-1 Isolated From Cold-arid Antarctic Mineral Soils

Cryobiology

Subzero Cell Division, Respiration, And Genomic Traits Of Cryophilic Arthrobacter agilis Ant-EH-1 Isolated From Cold-arid Antarctic Mineral Soils

Cassini Study Found Organics From An Ocean Inside Enceladus

Enceladus

Cassini Study Found Organics From An Ocean Inside Enceladus

Prebiotic Chemistry Insights for Dragonfly: Thermodynamics of Amino Acid Synthesis in Selk Crater on Titan

Titan

Prebiotic Chemistry Insights for Dragonfly: Thermodynamics of Amino Acid Synthesis in Selk Crater on Titan

Multiple Roles Of DNA Methylation In Sea-ice Bacterial Communities And Associated Viruses

Cryobiology

Multiple Roles Of DNA Methylation In Sea-ice Bacterial Communities And Associated Viruses

Six-million-year-old Ice Discovered In Antarctica Offers Unprecedented Window Into A Warmer Earth

Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine

Six-million-year-old Ice Discovered In Antarctica Offers Unprecedented Window Into A Warmer Earth

Ice Planet Research: British Antarctic Survey Discovery Building Comes To Life

Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine

Ice Planet Research: British Antarctic Survey Discovery Building Comes To Life

Are There Living Microbes On Mars? Check The Ice.

Mars

Are There Living Microbes On Mars? Check The Ice.

Unexpected Discovery On Titan Challenges Our View On Chemistry Before Life Emerged

Titan

Unexpected Discovery On Titan Challenges Our View On Chemistry Before Life Emerged

Multi-technique Characterization Of Iron Reduction By An Antarctic Shewanella: An Analog System For Putative Martian Biosignature Identification

Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine

Multi-technique Characterization Of Iron Reduction By An Antarctic Shewanella: An Analog System For Putative Martian Biosignature Identification

Waking Up Microbes Trapped In Permafrost For Up To 40,000 Years

Cryobiology

Waking Up Microbes Trapped In Permafrost For Up To 40,000 Years

Ice Mixed With Amino Acids Stores Methane In Minutes

Astrochemistry

Ice Mixed With Amino Acids Stores Methane In Minutes

Ice Gliding Diatoms Establish Record-low Temperature Limits For Motility In A Eukaryotic Cell

Cryobiology

Ice Gliding Diatoms Establish Record-low Temperature Limits For Motility In A Eukaryotic Cell

Modelling Snow Algal Habitat Suitability And Ecology Under Extreme Weather Events On The Antarctic Peninsula

Cryobiology

Modelling Snow Algal Habitat Suitability And Ecology Under Extreme Weather Events On The Antarctic Peninsula

Limiting Ice World Exploration: U.S. Will Retire Its Only Icebreaker Thus Stranding Polar Research

Icy Worlds

Limiting Ice World Exploration: U.S. Will Retire Its Only Icebreaker Thus Stranding Polar Research

The Effects Of Brines Relevant To Mars And The Ocean Worlds On Bacterial Growth Reflect Salt-specific Responses Across Water Activity

Mars

The Effects Of Brines Relevant To Mars And The Ocean Worlds On Bacterial Growth Reflect Salt-specific Responses Across Water Activity

Characterizing Microbial Communities in >7000- and >180,000-Year-Old Antarctic Permafrost Using a Low-Biomass Decontamination Protocol

Microbiology & Virology

Characterizing Microbial Communities in >7000- and >180,000-Year-Old Antarctic Permafrost Using a Low-Biomass Decontamination Protocol

Super Fungi Survive Extreme Mars-like Environments

Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments

Super Fungi Survive Extreme Mars-like Environments

Slow Radiolysis of Amino Acids in Mars-Like Permafrost Conditions: Applications to the Search for Extant Life on Mars

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Slow Radiolysis of Amino Acids in Mars-Like Permafrost Conditions: Applications to the Search for Extant Life on Mars

Replicating The Flyby Sampling Of Salty Ocean World Ice Grains Using Impact Ionization Mass Spectrometry

Europa

Replicating The Flyby Sampling Of Salty Ocean World Ice Grains Using Impact Ionization Mass Spectrometry