Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Life Detection and Microbial Biomarker Profiling with Signs of Life Detector-Life Detector Chip During a Mars Drilling Simulation Campaign in the Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert

• Press Release
• November 13, 2023

Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments

Bacteria Found In The Desert Pave The Way For Paint That Produces Oxygen Whilst Capturing Carbon

• Press Release
• October 23, 2023

Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography

How Desert Dust Nourishes The Growth Of Phytoplankton In Earth’s Oceans

• Press Release
• July 10, 2023

Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments

An Atacama Desert Microbial Community As A Model For Astrobiology

• Press Release
• November 26, 2022

Analog Studies

Adaptations Of Endolithic Communities To Abrupt Environmental Changes In A Hyper-arid Desert

• Press Release
• August 31, 2022

Analog Studies

Raman Spectroscopy And Planetary Exploration: Testing The ExoMars/RLS System At The Tabernas Desert (Spain)

• July 1, 2021

Analog Studies

Two Decades of km-resolution Satellite- And Ground-based Measurements of the Precipitable Water Vapor in the Atacama Desert

• March 8, 2021

Biophysics

Desert Mosses Use Quartz Rocks As Sun Shades

• Press Release
• July 24, 2020

Away Teams & Field Reports

Mineralogy of a Sulfate-rich Inverted Channel in the Atacama Desert, Chile: Clues to its Formation and Preservation

• Press Release
• February 25, 2020

Desert Worlds

Cellular Life From The Three Domains And Viruses Are Transcriptionally Active In A Hypersaline Desert Community

• Press Release
• November 26, 2019

Analog Studies

Atacama Desert Microbes May Hold Clues To Life On Mars

• Press Release
• August 22, 2019