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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 ...
Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
European scientists have gathered tiny fungi that take shelter in Antarctic rocks and sent them to the International Space Station. After 18 months on board in ...
Advanced Civilizations Could Thrive in Chaotic Star Clusters
Jan 22, 2016 (Sputnik)
In the search for alien civilizations, scientists have largely ruled out regions of space known as globular clusters, deemed too chaotic to sustain life. Accord...
The aliens are silent because they're dead
Jan 22, 2016 (SPX)
Life on other planets would likely be brief and become extinct very quickly, say astrobiologists from The Australian National University (ANU). In research aimi...
Nearing the limits of life on Earth
Jan 20, 2016 (SPX)
It took Jackie Goordial over 1000 Petri dishes before she was ready to accept what she was seeing. Or not seeing. Goordial, a post-doctoral fellow in the Depart...
The habitability of other worlds
Jan 19, 2016 (SPX)
How much we weigh on a planet depends on its surface gravity. Gravity is an important parameter for stars as well, and changes drastically over the course of a ...
Nitrogen May Be A Sign of Habitability
Jan 14, 2016 (SPX)
We might commonly think of Earth as having an oxygen-dominated atmosphere, but in reality the molecule makes up only a fifth of our air. Most of what surrounds ...
Globular clusters could host interstellar civilizations
Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)
Globular star clusters are extraordinary in almost every way. They're densely packed, holding a million stars in a ball only about 100 light-years across on ave...
Serpentinization: Nutrients of biological organisms in hydrothermal fields
Dec 31, 2015 (SPX)
The discovery of hydrothermal fields at ocean floor opens a new chapter for marine sciences. Fluids in hydrothermal fields are hot and acidic, where at least 40...
Is evolution more intelligent than we thought
Dec 21, 2015 (SPX)
Evolution may be more intelligent than we thought, according to a University of Southampton professor. Professor Richard Watson says new research shows that evo...
No extraterrestrial laser pulses detected from KIC 8462852
Dec 14, 2015 (SPX)
The anomalous star KIC 8462852 has baffled astronomers with its erratic dimming, causing some to speculate that it's orbited by a massive structure built by an ...
Huge organs defy austerity for tiny cave snails in the subterranean realm
Dec 10, 2015 (SPX)
While most of the knowledge about tiny snails comes from studying empty shells sifted out from piles of dust and sand, the present research is the first contemp...
Twin civilisations? How life on an exoplanet could spread to its neighbour
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
Imagine two nearby exoplanets orbiting the same sun, each with its own indigenous civilisation. They're going through history either as companionable neighbours...
Many Worlds, Subterranean Edition
Dec 01, 2015 (SPX)
One of the richest lines of research for those thinking about life beyond Earth has been the world of microscopic creatures that live in especially extreme and ...
Looking back 3.8 billion years into the root of the 'Tree of Life'
Dec 01, 2015 (SPX)
NASA-funded researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are tapping information found in the cells of all life on Earth, and using it to trace life's evo...
Radiation blasts leave most Earth-like planet uninhabitable, new research suggests
Nov 22, 2015 (SPX)
The most Earth-like planet could have been made uninhabitable by vast quantities of radiation, new research led by the University of Warwick research has found....
'Chemical Laptop' Could Search for Signs of Life Outside Earth
Nov 19, 2015 (JPL)
If you were looking for the signatures of life on another world, you would want to take something small and portable with you. That's the philosophy behind the ...
Early Earth's haze may give clue to habitability elsewhere in space
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
An atmospheric haze around a faraway planet - like the one which probably shrouded and cooled the young Earth - could show that the world is potentially habitab...
Early Earth's Haze May Give Clue to Habitability Elsewhere
Nov 12, 2015 (SPX)
An atmospheric haze around a faraway planet - like the one which probably shrouded and cooled the young Earth - could show that the world is potentially habitab...
Looking For Deliberate Radio Signals From KIC 8462852
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
Could there be intelligent life in the star system KIC 8462852? A recent analysis of data collected by the Kepler space telescope has shown that this star, info...
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