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Radio Signals from Jupiter Could Aid Search for Life
Jun 13, 2014 (SPX)
Powerful radio signals that Jupiter generates could be used to help researchers scan its giant moons for oceans that could be home to extraterrestrial life, acc...
Why Complex Mineral Surfaces Could Be Indications Of Life
Jun 11, 2014 (SPX)
Minerals are highly abundant on Earth and other planets. A "mineral" is a solid substance that has a well defined atomic crystal structure and chemical composit...
Could Exomoons Give False Positives In Search For Life?
Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)
Oxygen and methane should destroy each other when they are in the same atmosphere, breaking down into carbon monoxide and water. On Earth, however, these elemen...
Galaxy possibly teeming with 100 million life-sustaining planets
Jun 03, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Forget close encounters of a third kind. Imagine galactic encounters with millions of planets in the Milky Way galaxy, each of them overflowing with complex lif...
Harsh space weather may doom potential life on red-dwarf planets
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
Life in the universe might be even rarer than we thought. Recently, astronomers looking for potentially habitable worlds have targeted red dwarf stars because t...
A Breath of Fresh Air: NPP Post Doc Trinity Hamilton
May 22, 2014 (SPX)
Humble beginnings in a one-room grade school in rural Montana led Trinity Hamilton to look to the stars. Now, as a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow with the NAS...
Destroying Glycine in Ice
May 20, 2014 (SPX)
Astrobiologists have provided new insight into how radiation exposure can destroy the amino acid glycine, even when it's trapped in ice. Glycine is a basic buil...
First 'heavy mouse' leads to first lab-grown tissue mapped from atomic life
May 16, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists have created a 'heavy' mouse, the world's first animal enriched with heavy but non-radioactive isotopes - enabling them to capture in unprecedented d...
Salt needed: Tolerance lessons from a dead sea fungus
May 13, 2014 (SPX)
Despite its name, the Dead Sea does support life, and not just in the sense of helping visitors float in its waters. Algae, bacteria, and fungi make up the limi...
Oxygen In Exoplanet Atmospheres Could Fool Search For Life
May 09, 2014 (SPX)
Oxygen is a signal of life on our own planet, but that's not necessarily the case elsewhere. Particularly when it comes to young planets, signs of oxygen do not...
Why a bacterium got its curve
May 09, 2014 (SPX)
Drawing from his engineering background, Princeton University researcher Alexandre Persat had a notion as to why the bacteria Caulobacter crescentus are curved ...
Are we ready for contact with extraterrestrial intelligence
May 08, 2014 (SPX)
The SETI project scientists are known for tracking possible extraterrestrial signals, but now they are also considering sending messages from Earth telling of o...
Undersea warfare: Viruses hijack deep-sea bacteria at hydrothermal vents
May 02, 2014 (SPX)
More than a mile beneath the ocean's surface, as dark clouds of mineral-rich water billow from seafloor hot springs called hydrothermal vents, unseen armies of ...
Search for life on exoplanets more difficult than thought
May 01, 2014 (SPX)
A new study from the University of Toronto Scarborough suggests the search for life on planets outside our solar system may be more difficult than previously th...
Metabolism may have started in our early oceans before the origin of life
Apr 28, 2014 (SPX)
The chemical reactions behind the formation of common metabolites in modern organisms could have formed spontaneously in the earth's early oceans, questioning t...
Spiders in Space Weave a Web of Scientific Inspiration for Spider-Man Fans
Apr 24, 2014 (SPX)
While spiders were busy spinning webs in space, researchers on Earth weaved their knowledge of this activity into educational materials to inspire and motivate ...
Planet Kepler 186 is good parallel to Earth, but there is little chance to detect life
Apr 22, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
NASA's astronomers have discovered a planet that resembles Earth like no other planet known until today. This planet is circling a star 500 light-years away fro...
A Star's Early Chemistry Shapes Life-Friendly Atmospheres
Apr 22, 2014 (SPX)
Born in a disc of gas and rubble, planets eventually come together as larger and larger pieces of dust and rock stick together. They may be hundreds of light-ye...
Impact glass stores biodata for millions of years
Apr 22, 2014 (SPX)
Asteroid and comet impacts can cause widespread ecological havoc, killing off plants and animals on regional or even global scales. But new research from Brown ...
New Study Outlines 'Water World' Theory of Life's Origins
Apr 19, 2014 (JPL)
Life took root more than four billion years ago on our nascent Earth, a wetter and harsher place than now, bathed in sizzling ultraviolet rays. What started out...
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