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Quest for extraterrestrial life not over: experts
Apr 18, 2014 (AFP)
The discovery of an Earth-sized planet in the "habitable" zone of a distant star, though exciting, is still a long way from pointing to the existence of extrate...
Astronomers: 'Tilt-a-worlds' could harbor life
Apr 17, 2014 (SPX)
A fluctuating tilt in a planet's orbit does not preclude the possibility of life, according to new research by astronomers at the University of Washington, Utah...
Study Tests Theory that Life Originated at Deep Sea Vents
Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)
One of the greatest mysteries facing humans is how life originated on Earth. Scientists have determined approximately when life began (roughly 3.8 billion years...
A Question of Atmospheres: On Earth and Beyond
Apr 02, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists recently discovered the source of naturally occurring aerosol particles in Earth's atmosphere that play an important role in cloud formation. The par...
Dwarf Planet Discovery Could Help Show Life's Spread Through Solar System
Apr 01, 2014 (SPX)
On March 26, researchers announced the discovery of 2012 VP133, an estimated 280-mile wide (450-kilometer) object that lies just beyond the Kuiper Belt of icy o...
Don't forget F-type stars in search for life
Mar 27, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists searching for habitable planets beyond Earth shouldn't overlook F-type stars in favor of their more abundant, smaller and cooler cousins, according t...
Two Suns Could Make More Habitable Moons
Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)
Moons in close binary solar systems have a better chance of hosting life than those in single-star systems, new research has shown. Binary stars dampen each oth...
Could Alien Life Cope with a Hotter, Brighter Star?
Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)
The stars in the night sky shine in myriad hues and brightnesses-piercing blues, clean whites, smoldering crimsons. Every star has a different mass, the basic c...
New hypothesis explains Earth's continued habitability
Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from USC and Nanjing University in China have documented evidence suggesting that part of the reason that the Earth has become neither sweltering li...
How Did Life Arise? Fuel Cells May Have Answers
Mar 18, 2014 (JPL)
How life arose from the toxic and inhospitable environment of our planet billions of years ago remains a deep mystery. Researchers have simulated the conditions...
Microbes, How Low Can You Go?
Mar 04, 2014 (SPX)
The Sun was once thought to provide energy for all life on Earth - meaning that life could not survive without it. In the 20th century, as astrobiologists began...
Pinwheel 'living' crystals and the origin of life
Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)
Simply making nanoparticles spin coaxes them to arrange themselves into what University of Michigan researchers call 'living rotating crystals' that could serve...
New Technique Could Be Used to Search Space Dust for Life's Ingredients
Feb 04, 2014 (SPX)
While the origin of life remains mysterious, scientists are finding more and more evidence that material created in space and delivered to Earth by comet and me...
Planetary Protection: Preventing Microbes Hitchhiking to Space
Feb 03, 2014 (ESA)
While astronauts might dream of discovering unknown life one day in their future career, ESA's Planetary Protection Officer oversees activities that achieve it ...
From one cell to many: How did multicellularity evolve?
Jan 27, 2014 (SPX)
In the beginning there were single cells. Today, many millions of years later, most plants, animals, fungi, and algae are composed of multiple cells that work c...
Looking for a superhabitable world then try Alpha Centauri B
Jan 27, 2014 (SPX)
The search for extraterrestrial life extends far beyond Earth's solar system, looking for planets or moons outside the "stellar habitable zone" that may have en...
Searching for life in strange places
Jan 17, 2014 (ESA)
Last year schoolchildren were invited to dig up some earth in search of creepy-crawlies and underground life. Astronauts taking part in ESA's underground traini...
Does a Planet Need Life to Create Continents?
Jan 07, 2014 (SPX)
If not for life, Earth may not have possessed the continents it does now, instead becoming a planet covered nearly entirely in ocean, researchers say. These new...
Oil and metal munching microbes dominate deep sandstone formations
Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)
Halomonas are a hardy breed of bacteria. They can withstand heat, high salinity, low oxygen, utter darkness and pressures that would kill most other organisms. ...
Think you know what alien life may look like? Be careful!
Dec 16, 2013 (UPI)
The search for planets outside our solar system has been much in the news for the past couple of years, with most of the attention, and questions, focused on "h...
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