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15 hours ago

Do Extreme Environments Shape Microbial Genomes? - Astrobiology Evolutionary biologists have long known that DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of all organisms

Do Extreme Environments Shape Microbial Genomes?
astrobiology.com/2026/03/do-e... #astrobiology #genomics #extremophile

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3 days ago

Editorial: Life Under Pressure: Microbial Adaptation And Survival In High Pressure Environments - Astrobiology A quantitative overview of Earth's biomass has long been lacking, despite its importance for understanding the biosphere.

Editorial: Life Under Pressure: Microbial Adaptation And Survival In High Pressure Environments
astrobiology.com/2026/03/edit... #astrobiology #extremophile

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3 days ago

The image features a book cover titled "Extremophile" by Ian Green, displayed on a tablet. The colorful cover includes abstract designs with a guitar. To the right, there's a quote by Jamie Collinson: "An impassioned, compulsive riot." The background is a textured orange pattern.

'An impassioned, compulsive riot' Jamie Collinson

In #Extremophile by @ianthegreen.bsky.social, Charlie and Parker are punks by night, biohackers by day, living in the stuttering decay of near-future climate-collapse London.

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4 days ago

Methanothermococcus jasoni sp. nov., A Novel Thermophilic Methanogen From Subseafloor Hydrothermal Vent Fluids Of Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge - Astrobiology Low-temperature (34 °C) hydrothermal fluid was collected from Axial Seamount along the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the northeast Pacific Ocean

Methanothermococcus jasoni sp. nov., A Novel Thermophilic Methanogen From Subseafloor Hydrothermal Vent Fluids Of Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
astrobiology.com/2026/03/meth... #astrobiology #extremophile #microbiology #Oceanography

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5 days ago

Can Yeast Survive On Mars? - Astrobiology Baker’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) is an indispensable ingredient in making bread

Can Yeast Survive On Mars?
astrobiology.com/2026/03/can-... #astrobiology #Mars #extremophile

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1 week ago

Earth's Largest Acidic Geyser Is Currently Very Active - Astrobiology Norris Geyser Basin is known for being the hottest and most dynamic of Yellowstone National Park’s thermal areas—and that’s saying something! It is home to Steamboat Geyser, the tallest active geyser ...

Earth's Largest Acidic Geyser Is Currently Very Active
astrobiology.com/2026/03/eart... #astrobiology #hydrothermal #extremophile

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1 week ago

Specific Role Of Two NlpC/P60 Endopeptidases In Cell Division And Membrane Vesicle Formation In Deinococcus radiodurans - Astrobiology The bacterial cell wall is composed of peptidoglycan (PG)

Specific Role Of Two NlpC/P60 Endopeptidases In Cell Division And Membrane Vesicle Formation In Deinococcus radiodurans
astrobiology.com/2026/03/spec... #astrobiology #extremophile #microbiology

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2 weeks ago

Exploring The Habitability Of The Outer Solar System Icy Moons For The Extremotolerant Yeast Rhodotorula frigidalcoholis - Astrobiology Psychrophilic and psychrotolerant microorganisms have the unique ability to grow below 0°C

Exploring The Habitability Of The Outer Solar System Icy Moons For The Extremotolerant Yeast Rhodotorula frigidalcoholis
astrobiology.com/2026/02/expl... #astrobiology #extremophile #Microbiology

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3 weeks ago

Astrobiologists Search For Alien Life And Help Life On Earth In The Process - Astrobiology On Earth, life thrives in some of the most seemingly inhospitable environments.

Astrobiologists Search For Alien Life And Help Life On Earth In The Process
astrobiology.com/2026/02/astr... #astrobiology #extremophile #exploration

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3 weeks ago

XTREMOLIFE: An EU Initiative to Unlock the Biotechnological Potential of Extremophiles - Astrobiology The EU-funded project XTREMOLIFE aims to accelerate the bioprospecting and biodiscovery of extremophile microorganisms from desert, polar, and volcanic environments

XTREMOLIFE: An EU Initiative to Unlock the Biotechnological Potential of Extremophiles
astrobiology.com/2026/02/xtre... #astrobiology #extremophile #synbio

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1 month ago

CRREL Researchers Discover New Microbe Species Frozen In Alaskan Permafrost - Astrobiology Research microbiologists at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)

CRREL Researchers Discover New Microbe Species Frozen In Alaskan Permafrost
astrobiology.com/2026/02/crre... #astrobiology #extremophile #microbiology #caves

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1 month ago

Deep-sea Microbes Get An Unexpected Energy Boost - Astrobiology the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes

Deep-sea Microbes Get An Unexpected Energy Boost
astrobiology.com/2026/02/deep... #astrobiology #extremophile #oceanography #microbiology

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1 month ago

Radioprotection Redefined: Drug Discovery At The Intersection Of Tardigrade Biology And Translational Pharmacology - Astrobiology Harnessing tardigrade-inspired radioprotective strategies to revolutionize defense against ionizing radiation in medicine and space exploration.

Radioprotection Redefined: Drug Discovery At The Intersection Of Tardigrade Biology And Translational Pharmacology
astrobiology.com/2026/02/radi... #astrobiology #extremophile #Tardigrade

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1 month ago

Microbial Communities Of Selected Regions Of The Deep Springs Lake Aquifer System - Astrobiology Deep Springs Lake is a small, isolated, highly alkaline soda lake in Inyo County of Eastern California, USA

Microbial Communities Of Selected Regions Of The Deep Springs Lake Aquifer System
astrobiology.com/2026/02/micr... #astrobiology #microbiology #extremophile

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1 month ago

XTREMOLIFE Project - Astrobiology Advancing Sampling And Screening Of Extremophile Microorganisms For biodiscovery Of Bioactive Compounds from Volcanic, Desert, and Polar Ecosystems

XTREMOLIFE Project
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1 month ago

One Of Earth’s Most Abundant Organisms Is Surprisingly Fragile - Astrobiology A group of ocean bacteria long considered perfectly adapted to life in nutrient-poor waters may be more vulnerable to environmental change than scientists realized.

One Of Earth’s Most Abundant Organisms Is Surprisingly Fragile
astrobiology.com/2026/02/one-... #astrobiology #extremophile #Microbiology #Oceanography

Head of Zeus

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1 month ago

Check out the cover for #TheDeepAndTheDrowned, the first in a new fantasy trilogy from the author of the #Rotstorm & #Extremophile @ianthegreen.bsky.social

With an incredible illustration by Marcela Bolivar (@tropicalgloom.bsky.social) and Simon Michele

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1 month ago

Setting A Polyphasic Approach To Study Antarctic Cryptoendolithic Communities As A Toolkit For Astrobiology - Astrobiology The present study has set up a pilot experiment to optimise the most promising assays for investigating the survival of Antarctic microbial cryptoendolithic communities

Setting A Polyphasic Approach To Study Antarctic Cryptoendolithic Communities As A Toolkit For Astrobiology
astrobiology.com/2026/01/sett... #Astrobiology #Antarctic #extremophile #AwayTeam

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1 month ago

Bacteria Reveal Hidden Powers Of Electricity Transfer - Astrobiology Microbes are masters of survival, evolving ingenious strategies to capture energy from their surroundings

Bacteria Reveal Hidden Powers Of Electricity Transfer
astrobiology.com/2026/01/bact... #astrobiology #microbiology #extremophile

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1 month ago

Bacteria Reveal Hidden Powers Of Electricity Transfer - Astrobiology Microbes are masters of survival, evolving ingenious strategies to capture energy from their surroundings

Bacteria Reveal Hidden Powers Of Electricity Transfer
astrobiology.com/2026/01/bact... #astrobiology #microbiology #extremophile

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1 month ago

Frozen Hydrogen Cyanide ‘Cobwebs’ Offer Clues To Origin Of Life - Astrobiology A substance poisonous to humans — hydrogen cyanide — may have helped create the seeds of life

Frozen Hydrogen Cyanide ‘Cobwebs’ Offer Clues To Origin Of Life
astrobiology.com/2026/01/froz... #astrobiology #extremophile #astrochemistry

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1 month ago

Organisms In The Atacama Desert Soil Are Remarkably Diverse - Astrobiology A new study shows that resilient and remarkably diverse populations of organisms can persist in the soil

Organisms In The Atacama Desert Soil Are Remarkably Diverse
astrobiology.com/2026/01/orga... #astrobiology #extremophile #microbiology #biosignatures

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2 months ago

Evolutionary Stasis And Homogeneous Selection Structure Microbial Communities In The Deep Subseafloor Sedimentary Biosphere - Astrobiology The subseafloor biosphere, one of the Earth’s largest and most stable microbial habitats, mainly consists of energy-limited sediments where microbial life persists over geological timescales.

Evolutionary Stasis And Homogeneous Selection Structure Microbial Communities In The Deep Subseafloor Sedimentary Biosphere
astrobiology.com/2026/01/evol... #Astrobiology #extremophile #microbiology

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2 months ago

Taxonomic Description Of Uncultured Cyanobacteria From Extreme Habitats Through Genome-Based Classification - Astrobiology Cyanobacteria form a morphologically and phylogenetically diverse group of oxygenic phototrophic bacteria inhabiting a wide range of environments, including extreme habitats such as hot springs and vo...

Taxonomic Description Of Uncultured Cyanobacteria From Extreme Habitats Through Genome-Based Classification
astrobiology.com/2026/01/taxo... #astrobiology #microbiology #extremophile #AAS247

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2 months ago

Organic Carbon In A Submarine Pressure Cooker - Astrobiology The mid-ocean ridge runs through the oceans like a suture.

Organic Carbon In A Submarine Pressure Cooker
astrobiology.com/2026/01/orga... #astrobiology #oceanography #extremophile #AAS247

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2 months ago

A Glimpse Into Darkness: Diversity Of Culturable Cyanobacteria, Green Algae And Fungi From Subaerial Cave Biofilms - Astrobiology Caves and hypogean environments provide stable microclimates characterized by uniform temperatures, constant humidity, and low light levels.

A Glimpse Into Darkness: Diversity Of Culturable Cyanobacteria, Green Algae And Fungi From Subaerial Cave Biofilms
astrobiology.com/2026/01/a-gl... #astrobiology #AAS247 #extremophile #NASA

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2 months ago

The Deepest Gas Hydrate Cold Seep Ever Discovered In The Arctic - Astrobiology A multinational scientific team led by UiT has uncovered the deepest known gas hydrate cold seep on the planet.

astrobiology.com/2025/12/the-... #astrobiology #oceanography #extremophile #arctic

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2 months ago

Subsurface Life On Earth As A Key To Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries - Astrobiology The first forms of life on Earth were microbial, preceding the evolution of multicellular life by more than two billion years.

Subsurface Life On Earth As A Key To Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries
astrobiology.com/2025/12/subs... #astrobiology #extremophile #originoflife

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2 months ago

Detection Of The Deep Biosphere In Metamorphic Rocks From The Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling - Astrobiology It is generally accepted that there is a vast, well-populated biosphere in the subsurface,

Detection Of The Deep Biosphere In Metamorphic Rocks From The Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling
astrobiology.com/2025/12/dete... #astrobiology #extremophile

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2 months ago

Life On Lava: How Microbes Colonize New Habitats - Astrobiology Life has a way of bouncing back, even after catastrophic events like forest fires or volcanic eruptions.

Life On Lava: How Microbes Colonize New Habitats
astrobiology.com/2025/12/life... #astrobiology #microbiology #extremophile #AGU25