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Space Rose - A rose grown in microgravity  Credit: DeviantArt          Two decades ago, NASA developed a special growing chamber for plants for use on space missions, …

Credit: Astrobiotechnology NASA to grow vegetables, plants on Moon           NASA is planning to grow plants and vegetables - such as turnip and basil - on the Moon, to …

T HE basic building blocks of life - amino acids - can spontaneously  come into existence when icy comets smash into planets, a new study suggests . Researchers said th…

S EEDS  of life may have been sown on asteroids where warm and wet conditions, suitable to formation of some biomolecules - the building blocks of life - once prevailed,…

THE MOST primitive animals may have thrived in water that contained almost zero or little oxygen, anew study suggests, challenging a long held theory about the evoluti…

YES! You will be surprised to know that the ozone gas whose layer protects us from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays in fact a pollutant at the ground level! The …

WATER BEAR A Tiny new species dubbed 'water bear' has been discovered in Antarctica and members of this species can survive in space, researchers said. T…

Bacteria to find alien life A discovery on how bacteria interact salt to build complex 3 D shelters to hibernate has led scientists to believe that micro-organisms c…