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Lick Observatory Joins Massive Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe
Jul 21, 2015 (SPX)
Internet investor Yuri Milner and physicist Stephen Hawking announced a $100 Million Breakthrough Prize Initiative to dramatically reinvigorate the search for i...
CSIRO strikes deal for ET search
Jul 21, 2015 (SPX)
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with CSIRO to use the organisation's 64-m Parkes radio telescope in eastern Austra...
Berkeley in $100 million search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Jul 21, 2015 (SPX)
he Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its founder, internet investor Yuri Milner, have signed a contract with UC Berkeley to lead a major escalation in the searc...
Finding the origins of life in a drying puddle
Jul 21, 2015 (SPX)
Anyone who's ever noticed a water puddle drying in the sun has seen an environment that may have driven the type of chemical reactions that scientists believe w...
Hawking launches biggest-ever search for alien life
Jul 20, 2015 (AFP)
British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Monday launched the biggest-ever search for intelligent extraterrestrial life in a $100-million (92-million-euro), 10-yea...
Philae's comet may host alien 'life': astronomers
Jul 06, 2015 (AFP)
Astronomers proposed a novel explanation Monday for the strange appearance of the comet carrying Europe's robot probe Philae through outer space: alien microsco...
We're not alone - but the universe may be less crowded than we think
Jul 05, 2015 (SPX)
There may be far fewer galaxies further out in the universe then might be expected, according to a new study led by Michigan State University. Over the years, t...
Early Titan Was a Cold, Hostile Place For Life
Jul 05, 2015 (SPX)
Titan is a mysterious orange-socked moon of Saturn that is exciting to astrobiologists because it has some of the same kinds of chemicals that were precursors t...
Water-Rich Moons Could Form in 'Goldilocks Zone'
Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)
Exomoons are the wildcard in the ongoing chase for habitable worlds. Astronomers have discovered more than 1,900 exoplanets, a few of which might be friendly to...
Iron: A biological element?
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
Think of an object made of iron: An I-beam, a car frame, a nail. Now imagine that half of the iron in that object owes its existence to bacteria living two and ...
Nonphotosynthetic pigments could be biosignatures of life on other worlds
Jun 25, 2015 (SPX)
To find life in the universe, it helps to know what it might look like. If there are organisms on other planets that do not rely wholly on photosynthesis - as s...
Atmospheric signs of volcanic activity could aid search for life
Jun 09, 2015 (SPX)
Planets with volcanic activity are considered better candidates for life than worlds without such heated internal goings-on. Now, graduate students at the Unive...
Hardy Bacteria Thrive Under Hot Desert Rocks
Jun 05, 2015 (NASA)
Beneath the rocks scarring California's Mojave Desert are colonies of cyanobacteria, tiny creatures thought to be some of the first on Earth to convert light fr...
Microbes Can Survive In Meteorites If Shielded From UV Radiation
May 31, 2015 (SPX)
Outer space might be the toughest environment for life, but some hearty microbes have been able to survive in it for surprising amounts of time. How long they c...
Driest Place on Earth Hosts Life
May 20, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have pinpointed the driest location on Earth in the Atacama Desert, a region in Chile already recognised as the most arid in the world. They have al...
Circular orbits for small extrasolar planets
May 18, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers based at Aarhus University have measured the orbital eccentricity of 74 small extrasolar planets and found their orbits to be close to circular, sim...
Ether Compounds Could Work like DNA On Oily Worlds
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have justifiably focused on water because all biology as we know it requires this fluid. A wild card, however, i...
Ancient Star Raises Prospects of Intelligent Life
May 09, 2015 (SPX)
Can life survive for billions of years longer than the expected timeline on Earth? As scientists discover older and older solar systems, it's likely that before...
Astrobiology Students Use Art to Develop Critical Thinking Skills
May 08, 2015 (SPX)
Consider the process that goes into creating a painting - the attention to detail, the need to interpret the world around you. A scientist goes about his or her...
A hot start to the origin of life
May 08, 2015 (SPX)
DNA is synonymous with life, but where did it originate? One way to answer this question is to try to recreate the conditions that formed DNA's molecular precur...
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