Arizona State University doctoral candidates Tanner Barnes and Vince Debes hike Yellowstone's trails not as tourists, but as astrobiologists hunting for clues about life beyond Earth. Their Yellowstone samples could hold answers to humanity's oldest question: Are we alone?

Both of these individuals perform research at ASU under Professor Everett Shock in the GEOPIG lab, which explores "life as a planetary process,"........

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