There’s nowhere on Earth quite like the Atacama Desert. Literally: it exists in a basically unique meteorological void, ...
The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of ...
The Atacama Desert harbors unique desert life with diverse microbes.New techniques separate genetic material in low-biomass ...
Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s.
Conservation efforts in South America are overly focused on the Amazon rainforest, neglecting other critical ecosystems such ...
Researchers describe a new way to separate extracellular from intracellular genetic material, allowing better insights into ...
An astrobiologist suggests that NASA's Viking missions in the 1970s may have inadvertently eliminated potential Martian life.
Washington, D.C.-The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of that ...
New research reveals that 70% of meteorites that strike Earth originate from three young asteroid families in the main ...
The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...
A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert.