Tag Archives: astrobiology

The largest subglacial lake in the world will begin to yield its secrets later this month, when a Russian drilling team reaches it beneath 4 km of Antarctic ice.

With NASA's discovery of a new species of arsenic-tolerant bacteria appearing to dissolve in a highly-public storm of professional scrutiny, we're all enrolled a crash course in the rites and rituals of scientific practice.

We've met the shadow biosphere, and it is us.

Perhaps the secret to extraterrestrial life resides here on Earth.

NASA's latest nanosatellites seek answers to questions about the place of life in the universe�at a very small scale.

The search for extraterrestrial life is serious science: its methods are precisely documented, its results painstakingly peer-reviewed. But at the same time it�s a field with curious standards when it comes to �advances.�