UCSB research offers a new perspective on how carbon is stored in the deep ocean and what it could mean for maintaining Earth ...
SQUIRE aims to detect exotic spin-dependent interactions using quantum sensors deployed in space, where speed and ...
Glaciers are flush with microbial life. But, as climate change speeds glacial melting, scientists rush to establish microbial ...
Surface-bound gels may have offered the structure and chemistry needed for life to take hold on Earth—and possibly elsewhere.
Earth and planetary sciences professor Andrew Fisher will lead hydrogeology simulations to study how water, heat, and ...
Researchers find that cosmic dust acts as a catalyst, helping simple space gases form key molecules that may jump-start ...
Searching for technosignatures—signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afar—remains a difficult task. There are ...
Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.
After placing an ancient extreme Earth organism outside of the ISS for nine months, scientists were shocked to find it was ...