As far as candidates for nearby worlds that may contain life, Jupiter's frosty moon Europa is one tantalizing place for scientists to look. Astrobiologists speculate that alien life forms could reside ...

Image: Life below the ice at New Harbor in Antarctica, about 130 feet deep. Sponges, crinoids, scallops, snails, fish and many microorganisms thrive in this freezing environment. (Jere Lipps/UC ...

・Earth’s deep-sea hydrothermal vents provide a model for understanding how life could exist on Europa. ・Holden’s team is studying how vent microbes generate energy using hydrogenases to predict what ...

Unfortunately, it turns out that Europa isn't producing all that much oxygen for its ocean. That doesn't preclude the possibility of life, but it does reduce the odds, so if you're placing bets on the ...

Cynthia Phillips was mesmerized when she saw the latest pictures of her favorite moon. Here at last was a fresh look at Europa, an icy satellite of Jupiter. The moon resembles a truffle drizzled ...

Dr. Webb is a historian of science and the director of the future humans program at the Berggruen Institute. Picture an ice-covered landscape, rough and rocky. Plumes of water vapor erupt from the ...

An instrument on a NASA spacecraft due to blast off to Europa later this year may be able to directly detect cellular material ejected from the icy moon of Jupiter, raising the prospects for finding ...

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THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — On stage, before a silent assembly of scientists, many of whom are experts on alien worlds, planetary scientist Paul Byrne assumed his position behind the podium. He had come to ...

So far, scientists have one place to study the life forms in the universe: Earth. However, across our planet, life is anything but homogenous. From the watery, dark depths of the ocean to frigid ...