Team of geomicrobiologists walking to a sampling site at the end of an inactive tunnel in a South African gold mine. At this site almost 3 km deep beneath the surface, the researchers can access one ...
Geophysicists at Washington State University have uncovered a possible explanation for how nutrients may travel into the subsurface ocean of Europa, a moon of Jupiter that ranks among the strongest ...
New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...
Surface mapping technology such as GPS, radar and laser scanning have long been used to measure features on the Earth's surface. Now, a new computational technique developed at The University of Texas ...
Which microbes thrive below us in darkness -- in gold mines, in aquifers, in deep boreholes in the seafloor -- and how do they compare to the microbiomes that envelop the Earth's surfaces, on land and ...