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Planets Discovered That May Harbor Life
Friday, April 19, 2013
Three more Earth-like planets have been discovered by the Kepler Telescope, and it is becoming clear to scientists that there are Earth-like planets "everywhere," according to Kepler scientist Tom Barclay. Two of the planets are 1,200 light years away, and the other is 2,700 light years distant.
Kepler 62f and Kepler 62e...
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Kepler 62f and Kepler 62e...
Meteorite Reveals Extraterrestrial Life
Thursday, January 17, 2013
A meteorite that recently landed close to a city in Sri Lanka may be "the most important scientific discovery in the last 500 years" since it brought "compelling evidence of life" from space.
On the Island website, Walter Jayawardhana quotes one of the scientists who discovered the contents of the meteorite as...
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On the Island website, Walter Jayawardhana quotes one of the scientists who discovered the contents of the meteorite as...
NASA Says There's Alien Life on Moon of Saturn
Thursday, June 7, 2012
We don't know if there are aliens on the moon, but we DO know that NASA has uncovered evidence of what it calls "primitive aliens" on Titan, one of Saturn's biggest moons.
NASA concluded this after its Cassini probe analyzed the complex chemistry if the...
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NASA concluded this after its Cassini probe analyzed the complex chemistry if the...
Discovery of a Perfect Planet
Thursday, February 9, 2012
An Earth-like planet recently spotted outside our solar system is the first that atromomers have found that could support liquid water and harbor life.
Liquid water is what astronomers look for, and the...
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Liquid water is what astronomers look for, and the...
Still Searching for ET
Monday, November 28, 2011
When we're looking for extraterrestrial life, other moons may be our best bet. Among the most habitable alien worlds is Saturn's moon Titan.
In recent years, the search for potentially habitable planets outside our solar system has increased. NASA's...
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In recent years, the search for potentially habitable planets outside our solar system has increased. NASA's...
The REdiscovery of New Planets
Monday, October 10, 2011
In a continuing search for other planets that may harbor life, re-analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images from 1998, astronomers have found evidence for two extrasolar planets that went undetected back then. Four giant planets are known to orbit the young, massive star HR 8799, which is 130 light-years away. The first three were discovered In...
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Planets Found That Could Contain Extraterrestrial Life
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
There may be alien life out there, after all: Using the Harps telescope in Chile, a European observatory has announced "major" alien planet findings: 50 previously unknown "exoplanets" that could harbor life. These...
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Life on Other Planets
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
NASA can't keep it secret if it shows up on Google! - Scientists are expanding the search for extraterrestrial life?and they've set their sights on some very unearthly planets?and it turns out there are LOTS of them! But if we DO find life on other planets, there's a strong chance the general public will never hear about it....
Extraterrestrial Life: Not Carbon-Based Like Us?
Friday, August 24, 2007
Could extraterrestrial life be made of corkscrew-shaped particles of interstellar dust? Astronomers have discovered intriguing new evidence of life-like structures that form from inorganic substances in space that could be the basis of ANOTHER life form.
An international team of astronomers thinks that extraterrestrial life forms may...
The Search for Alien Life
Monday, January 7, 2002
In a report titled ?Signs of Life,? a multidisciplinary group of scientists talk about techniques and technologies that can be used to detect evidence for extraterrestrial life on other worlds.
?The report is based on a workshop that brought together a healthy spectrum of senior experts and young researchers,? says Jonathan Lunine,...
A Search for the Chemicals of Alien Life
Thursday, November 29, 2001
Scientists looking at a star 150 light-years away with the Hubble Space Telescope found that a planet there contains sodium in its atmosphere. This demonstrates that it may be possible to search for the chemical signature of life on planets beyond the solar system.
?Suddenly, discussing searches for Earth-like planets seems quite...
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