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Search for ET underway with Parkes Radio Telescope
Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)
Breakthrough Listen, the 10-year, $100-million astronomical search for intelligent life beyond Earth launched in 2015 by Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and S...
First Light for Breakthrough Listen at Parkes Telescope
Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)
Breakthrough Listen, the 10-year, $100-million astronomical search for intelligent life beyond Earth launched in 2015 by Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and S...
Breakthrough Listen to Search for Intelligent Life Around Tabby's Star
Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)
Tabby's star has provoked so much excitement over the past year, with speculation that it hosts a highly advanced civilization capable of building orbiting mega...
Proxima b could be an ocean planet
Oct 27, 2016 (JPL)
A rocky extrasolar planet with a mass similar to Earth's was recently detected around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our sun. This planet, called Proxima...
Deep down fracking wells, microbial communities thrive
Oct 26, 2016 (SPX)
Microbes have a remarkable ability to adapt to the extreme conditions in fracking wells, according to a study published in the October issue of Nature Microbiol...
A pathogenic fungus grows in space
Oct 26, 2016 (UPI)
As scientists continue to prepare for travel to deep space, they're covering all the bases, assessing all the risks -- like the risk of microbial exposure in cl...
New species of extremely leggy millipede discovered in a cave in California
Oct 25, 2016 (SPX)
Along with many spiders, pseudoscorpions, and flies discovered and catalogued by the cave explorers, a tiny threadlike millipede was found in the unexplored dar...
New bacteria groups, and stunning diversity, discovered underground
Oct 25, 2016 (SPX)
One of the most detailed genomic studies of any ecosystem to date has revealed an underground world of stunning microbial diversity, and added dozens of new bra...
Building Blocks of Life's Building Blocks Come From Starlight
Oct 14, 2016 (JPL)
Life exists in a myriad of wondrous forms, but if you break any organism down to its most basic parts, it's all the same stuff: carbon atoms connected to hydrog...
China to Collaborate on Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
The National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) is joining forces with the Breakthrough Initiatives to launch a coordinated search for evidence of intel...
Science at cusp of 'transformational' grasp of life via cell modeling
Oct 06, 2016 (SPX)
A paper recently published in the Journal of Molecular Biology shows how advances in molecular biology and computer science around the world soon may lead to a ...
New research undermines 'RNA world' of early evolution
Sep 29, 2016 (UPI)
Did RNA evolve DNA, or did the two emerge simultaneously? Until recently, most scientists suggested the former, but new research undermines the theory, inspirin...
Earthquakes, 'Marsquakes,' and the Possibility of Life
Sep 19, 2016 (SPX)
A new study shows that rocks formed by the grinding together of other rocks during earthquakes are rich in trapped hydrogen - a finding that suggests similar se...
Proxima b Could Be a Life-Friendly Planet, Says One of the Co-Discoverers
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
When in late August this year, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) broke the news, announcing the discovery of Proxima b, the closest exoplanet to us, it fu...
New knowledge about the building blocks of life
Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)
A study of an enzyme that helps build and repair DNA in living organisms increases our understanding of how these processes are controlled and how we can use th...
The Genesis Project: New life on exoplanets
Sep 05, 2016 (SPX)
Can life be brought to celestial bodies outside our solar system which are not permanently inhabitable? This is the question with which Professor Dr. Claudius G...
'Strong signal' stirs interest in hunt for alien life
Aug 29, 2016 (AFP)
A "strong signal" detected by a radio telescope in Russia that is scanning the heavens for signs of extraterrestrial life has stirred interest among the scienti...
A better way to learn if Alien Planets have the Right Stuff
Aug 25, 2016 (SPX)
A new method for analyzing the chemical composition of stars may help scientists winnow the search for Earth 2.0. Yale University researchers Debra Fischer and ...
Researchers suggest life on Earth may be early in cosmic terms
Aug 25, 2016 (SPX)
Why are we now? We know that the universe is roughly 14 billion years old, and that someday it is likely to end - perhaps because of a Big Freeze, Big Rip or Bi...
Bacteria could aid search for creatures on other planets
Aug 22, 2016 (SPX)
Could there be a way to find bacterial structures on another planet? And if so, how important might these bacteria be in making a planet life-friendly? These ar...
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