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MICROBES IN DEEP ROCKS
There’s an Entire Living World Beneath Your Feet, And It Shouldn’t ExistScientists have discovered a vast microbial ecosystem kilometers deep within the Earth, thriving in extreme pressures and limited nutrients...
Scientists Stunned to Find Signs of Ancient Life in a Place No One ExpectedScientists found ancient wrinkle-like structures in Moroccan rocks. These formations, 180 million years old, suggest microbes lived in deep...
Could Life on Earth Be Older Than We Thought? Scientists Find Clues in 3.3 Billion-Year-Old RocksScientists have unearthed faint chemical traces in rocks over 3.3 billion years old, potentially representing Earth's earliest biological e...
Life Without Sunlight? The Deepest Cave on Earth Says YesScientists discover life thriving in Krubera Voronja Cave, Earth's deepest known cave. Organisms survive without sunlight, feeding on chemi...
Inside Earth’s Oldest Rocks, Microbes Have Been Living in DarknessScientists have discovered vast microbial life deep within Earth's solid rock, challenging previous beliefs. These organisms, thriving in t...
Scientists Found an Ecosystem That Runs on Hydrogen Instead of SunlightScientists have discovered deep-sea and underground microbial ecosystems thriving without sunlight, powered by hydrogen gas produced throug...
The Deepest Cave on Earth: How Does Life Survive There?Scientists have discovered life thriving in Veryovkina Cave, Earth's deepest known cave at over 2,200 meters. Microorganisms, independent o...
Geologists Find Strange Stone Tunnels That Could Point to a Never-Before-Seen Lifeform on EarthScientists discovered unusual, narrow tunnels within ancient desert rocks in Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. These parallel channels are u...
Underwater giant off U.S. coast shows signs of new eruption, scientists sayThe Axial Seamount, a massive underwater volcano off Oregon’s coast, may soon erupt again. Known as the region’s most active submarine volc...
Asteroid may become new wonder-food for astronauts, claims new studyA study published in The International Journal of Astrobiology reveals a groundbreaking concept where astronauts could use asteroids to mee...
Asteroids may play key role in spreading life: StudyCalculations showed there may be as many as 10 trillion asteroid-sized objects carrying life, according to Idan Ginsburg, a postdoctoral sc...
The key to colonizing Mars could be tiny green microbesIn science fiction, we find humans harvesting fields of wheat under terraformed Martian skies and growing rows of potatoes inside climate-c...
First Oxygen appeared on earth way earlier than we realizedA team of geochemists reports the discovery of rusty, iron-rich rock layers in sediments deposited on shallow ocean floors some 3.2 billion...
Chinese submarine dives into Indian Ocean for a 120-day mission hunt goldThe project involves exploring the Indian Ocean for 120 days, reflects China's hunger for resources, and its long-term development plans.
China's submersible begins exploration of Indian OceanEarlier China's State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said the discovery of poly metallic deposits in the southwest Indian Ocean as "beyond an...
China deploys submersible in Indian Ocean to explore metalsChina's deep-sea manned submersible today carried out its first dive in the southwest Indian Ocean to look for deposits of copper, zinc and...
NASA Curiosity rover marks two years on MarsThe unmanned spacecraft landed inside the Gale Crater on Aug 5, 2012 to start a multi-year mission to seek out areas where life could or ma...