Tagged: microbes

Life on Earth just got weirder, and that may have intriguing implications for life beyond this planet. That’s one takeaway from new research that identified cyanobacteria — a class of microbes known for turning sunlight into sugar — living deep below Earth’s surface, far away...

Microbes living at the edges of Arctic ice sheets could help researchers pinpoint evidence for similar microorganisms that may have evolved on Mars, Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus, researchers say. Scientists are investigating the receding edge of ice sheets on Earth to study...

The ongoing brouhaha over arsenic-munching microbes on Earth shows just how tough it can be to search for “life as we don’t know it” on our home world — and the challenges would be even greater on other planets. On Sunday (July 8), two new...

This week NASA announced that its analysis of rock dust suggests there could have been life on Mars. We’re talking microbes. They can’t come right out and spill the beans about alien life because there’s that incident in Roswell, New Mexico, back in 1947 that’s...