EXO LIFE - BIO FUEL DAILY

Apr 07, 2016 (SPX)

One of the startling discoveries about life on Earth in the past 25 years is that it can - and does - flourish beneath the ocean floor, in the planet's dark, de...

New Search for Signals from 20,000 Star Systems Begins

Mar 31, 2016 (SPX)

The SETI Institute has inaugurated a greatly expanded hunt for deliberately produced radio signals that would indicate the presence of extraterrestrial intellig...

NJIT researchers make a major cavefish discovery in Thailand

Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have identified unique anatomical features in a species of blind, walking cavefish in Thailand that e...

Female hybrid fish grows testicles, impregnates self

Mar 24, 2016 (UPI)

Researchers at Hull University in England recently happened upon a female cichlid "selfing" -- having sex with herself. The fish, a hybrid of two cichlid specie...

For bacteria, life in space is better than on Earth

Mar 24, 2016 (UPI)

Scientists are exploring long-term space travel from every conceivable angle. For a team of researchers at the University of California, Davis, the angle is bac...

Solving the mystery of the Tully Monster

Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)

The Tully Monster, an oddly configured sea creature with teeth at the end of a narrow, trunk-like extension of its head and eyes that perch on either side of a ...

Life's Building Blocks Form In Replicated Deep Sea Vents

Mar 09, 2016 (SPX)

Chimney-like mineral structures on the seafloor could have helped create the RNA molecules that gave rise to life on Earth and hold promise to the emergence of ...

What if extraterrestrial observers called, but nobody heard

Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)

As scientists step up their search for other life in the universe, two astrophysicists are proposing a way to make sure we don't miss the signal if extraterrest...

Searching for Extraterrestrials Who Might Have Found Us First

Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)

Are we alone in the universe? To answer this question, astronomers have been using a variety of methods in the past decades to search for habitable planets and ...

Is it life, or merely the illusion of life

Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)

Research from the University of Washington-based Virtual Planetary Laboratory published Feb. 26 in Astrophysical Journal Letters will help astronomers better id...

NASA Tests Life-Detection Drill in Earth's Driest Place

Feb 29, 2016 (SPX)

In a harsh environment with very little water and intense ultraviolet radiation, most life in the extreme Atacama Desert in Chile exists as microbial colonies u...

Eying exomoons in the search for E.T.

Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)

When I was young, the only planets we knew about were the ones in our own solar system. Astronomers presumed that many of the other stars in the night sky had p...

China Relocates 10,000 for Giant Telescope to Search for Alien Life

Feb 18, 2016 (Sputnik)

Chinese authorities will relocate almost ten thousand people from their homes in the southwest of the country to construct the world's largest radio telescope, ...

China's space telescope to displace humans in search for aliens

Feb 16, 2016 (AFP)

China will move nearly 10,000 people to make way for the world's largest radio telescope which promises to help humanity search for alien life, state media repo...

Two new zoantharian species found on eunicid worms in the dark in the Indo-Pacific ocean

Feb 15, 2016 (SPX)

While studying the abundant, yet poorly known fauna of the zoantharian Epizoanthus genus in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, Japanese graduate student Hiroki Kise and Dr...

Slime can see

Feb 11, 2016 (SPX)

After more than 300 years of looking, scientists have figured out how bacteria "see" their world. And they do it in a remarkably similar way to us. A team of Br...

Artistic space odyssey to broadcast people's messages to the stars

Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)

Messages from around the world are to be beamed into space at the speed of light as part of a cultural project to create a celestial time capsule. In autumn 201...

How Friendly Is Enceladus' Ocean To Life

Feb 05, 2016 (SPX)

How acidic is the ocean on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus? It's a fundamental question to understanding if this geyser-spouting moon could support life. Enceladus ...

Scripps-led team discovers 4 new deep-sea worm species

Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)

A pink flatworm-like animal known by a single species found in waters off Sweden has puzzled biologists for nearly six decades. New discoveries half a world awa...

Novel Calibration Tool Will Help Astronomers Look for Habitable Exoplanets

Feb 01, 2016 (SPX)

Promising new calibration tools, called laser frequency combs, could allow astronomers to take a major step in discovering and characterizing earthlike planets ...