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A small, unassuming moss from Earth’s deserts is drawing serious attention from scientists studying life beyond our planet.

How could terrestrial living organisms withstand the hostile environments of other planets? To answer this question, a research team chose to examine yeast, a common microorganism, under Martian ...

How do terrestrial planets like Earth form and evolve to enable life to exist? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a pair of scientists from the Southwest Research ...

A new SwRI-led paper highlights the scientific progress made in understanding the evolution of terrestrial planets, including the effects of late large impacts on pre-existing modes of tectonics. For ...

Six planets are hanging out in the sky this month in what's known as a planetary parade. Catch the spectacle while you can because it's the last one of the year.

Since NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived at Mars in 2006, the spacecraft has delivered some of the most detailed ...