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NASA says a full-fledged institute devoted to astrobiology is no longer needed given the maturity of the field, arguing it can be replaced with a looser network of researchers. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON ...

They are the most abundant form of life on Earth, but viruses – or their seed-like dormant state, known as virions – are outliers in our search for life on other planets. Now, one group of scientists ...

Humans might not be walking on Earth today if not for the ancient fusing of two microscopic, single-celled organisms called prokaryotes, NASA-funded research has found. By comparing proteins present ...

The NASA Astrobiology Program has awarded a five-year, $5 million grant to an interdisciplinary consortium led by the University of California, Santa Cruz, to trace the volatile elements that form the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The claim: NASA just hired 24 theologians to assess how the world would react to discovery of extraterrestrial life The prospect ...

Although technically challenging, space experiments are a scientifically important aspect of astrobiology and astrochemistry investigations. The international space station (ISS) offers an excellent ...

A young discipline holds promise yet. In the 1960s, the evolutionary theorist George Gaylord Simpson rubbished the then-nascent science of exobiology, which concerned itself with life on places other ...

Nobody has yet seen an extraterrestrial, which may sound like a problem in establishing a science of astrobiology. But in the past 20 years or so, scientists have found clues that life may be quite ...