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Astronomers have discovered a distant planet with an abundance of helium in its atmosphere, which has swollen to resemble an inflated balloon.

5 years ago astrobio.net

Early life forms on Earth may have been able to generate metabolic energy from sunlight using a purple-pigmented molecule called retinal that possibly predates the evolution of chlorophyll and photosynthesis

6 years ago astrobio.net earth

15 new planets confirmed around cool dwarf stars

6 years ago astrobio.net

Are Planetary Systems Filled to Capacity?

7 years ago astrobio.net

As Oceans Alkalized, Life Developed Bones and Shells

7 years ago astrobio.net

Microbial life found in Mars-like desert on Earth

9 years ago astrobio.net earth

Search for advanced civilizations beyond Earth finds nothing obvious in 100,000 galaxies

9 years ago astrobio.net earth

A group of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa have determined that 70,000 years ago a recently discovered that a dim rogue star is likely to have passed through our solar system's Oort Cloud

9 years ago astrobio.net chile europe

Similarity between martian sedimentary deposits and terrestrial microbial mats

9 years ago astrobio.net

A new study by an international team of researchers, published in the journal PLOS ONE, suggests that the reason for astronauts having trouble staying upright on the lunar surface might be because its gravity isn’t sufficient to provide astronauts with unambiguous information on which way is “up.”

10 years ago astrobio.net