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Just as archaeologists know to be careful in how they interpret physical fossils, historians of protein evolution could take similar care in their interpretation of molecular fossils. Our results ...

Astronomers said they had found "undepleted phosphine," a molecule associated with life, on Earth in the atmosphere of a ...

A fresh analysis of old data has found rich organic chemistry within the hidden ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus ...

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For nearly two decades Enceladus, a 500-kilometer-wide moon of Saturn, has been a top target in the hunt for extraterrestrial ...

Fresh analysis of Cassini data has revealed new complex organic molecules inside ice grains spewing from Enceladus. These discoveries strengthen the case that the moon’s underground ocean hosts ...

Scientists digging through data collected by the Cassini spacecraft have found new complex organic molecules spewing from Saturn's moon Enceladus ...

Something strange is happening in the frozen skies above Mars’s North Pole. Deep in the planet’s endless winter darkness, where temperatures drop to unthinkable lows and sunlight never reaches the ...

Another US company, United Therapeutics, has approval to trial up to 50 transplants with their own modified pig kidney. Xenotransplantation researcher Wayne Hawthorne, a professor of transplantation ...