An astrobiologist suggests that NASA's Viking missions in the 1970s may have inadvertently eliminated potential Martian life.

In the vast, arid expanse of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery: life thriving four meters beneath the surface. Covering 105,000 square kilometers, ...

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany believes that humans may have ...

“If you extract all the DNA, you have DNA from living organisms and also DNA that can represent organisms that just died or ...

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The Atacama Desert harbors unique desert life with diverse microbes.New techniques separate genetic material in low-biomass ...

A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert.

Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a scientist who thinks NASA's Viking landers could have inadvertently destroyed the life they were ...

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The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of ...

Researchers have found evidence of living microbes thriving in one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth - the Atacama Desert of Chile.