LifeTracer uses machine learning to spot subtle molecular patterns that separate biological chemistry from nonliving organics ...

A specially trained algorithm could aid the search for biological activity both on the early Earth and on other worlds.

As space agencies prepare to bring home pieces of the Martian system, the hope of finding life elsewhere in the universe ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...

A machine learning framework can distinguish molecules made by biological processes from those formed through non-biological processes and could be used to analyze samples returned by current and ...

They built four models through which it could distinguish things with biological antecedents from things which lacked them.

Right here on Earth are some outstanding examples of meteorite and asteroid impact craters and other visible impact ...

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...

Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists today published fresh chemical evidence of Earth’s earliest life – concealed in 3.3-billion-year-old ...

Researchers have discovered chemical traces of life in rocks older than 3.3 billion years, offering a rare look at Earth’s earliest biology. By combining advanced chemical methods with artificial ...

A machine learning framework can distinguish molecules made by biological processes from those formed through non-biological processes and could be ...

Researchers from Carnegie Institution for Science find photosynthesis was taking place 800 million years earlier than ...