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Chemistry of seabed's hot vents could explain emergence of life

Apr 28, 2015 (SPX)

Hot vents on the seabed could have spontaneously produced the organic molecules necessary for life, according to new research by UCL chemists. The study shows h...

Search for Extraterrestial Life Included in Russian Space Program

Apr 27, 2015 (Sputnik)

Projects for searching for extraterrestial life forms, studying climate changes on Earth, and defining the level of threat from dangerous comets and asteroids h...

Collaboration to Aid the Search for Life on Distant Worlds

Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)

A new NASA initiative is embracing a team approach to the problem of finding life on planets around other stars. Termed NExSS (NASA Exoplanet System Science), t...

ASU team searching for signs of life in the stars

Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)

For centuries, humans have sought to learn whether life exists beyond Earth. That answer is closer than ever to fulfillment, and an ASU team is working on a key...

UW key player in new NASA coalition to search for life on distant worlds

Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)

Since 2001 the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory, based at the University of Washington, has brought an interdisciplinary approach to t...

Venus Zone Narrows Search for Habitable Planets

Apr 23, 2015 (NASA)

Long before the hunt began to find Earth lookalikes around other stars, one planet in the Solar System had already been named Earth's twin. With its similar siz...

Viruses Help Microbial Hosts Cope with Life at the Extremes

Apr 23, 2015 (NASA)

A new study reveals that viruses lend a surprisingly helpful hand to microbes eking out a living near deep-sea hydrothermal vents. When they infect the vent's r...

Life's building blocks recreated under space-like conditions

Apr 23, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers have reproduced a wide array of building blocks for life in a prebiotic scenario involving meteorites and the solar wind. They began with formamide,...

Search for advanced civilizations finds nothing obvious in 100,000 galaxies

Apr 21, 2015 (SPX)

After searching 100,000 galaxies for signs of highly advanced extraterrestrial life, a team of scientists using observations from NASA's WISE orbiting observato...

NASA Chief Scientist: We'll Find Proof of Alien Life by 2025

Apr 16, 2015 (Sputnik)

While scientists have long suspected that we may not be alone in the universe, they've never had concrete evidence. But top NASA officials say that may not be t...

NASA Experiments With 'Building Blocks' of Life in Lab

Apr 14, 2015 (Sputnik)

A group of scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are studying the origin of life on Earth, and they've made a major breakthro...

Aliens Are Probably Huge 650-Pound Creatures

Apr 10, 2015 (Sputnik)

New research proposes that if intelligent life outside Earth's atmosphere exists, chances are it's enormous. The findings from University of Barcelona cosmologi...

Life Needs An Atmosphere, But How Much Is Too Much

Apr 08, 2015 (SPX)

How much atmosphere is too much for life? As scientists discover more super-Earths and mini-Neptunes, the question becomes more relevant. Often, the rocky cores...

Surviving in hostile territory

Mar 25, 2015 (SPX)

Many strange creatures live in the deep sea, but few are odder than archaea, primitive single-celled bacteria-like microorganisms. Archaea go to great lengths -...

Europa's Elusive Water Plume Paints Grim Picture For Life

Mar 25, 2015 (SPX)

A meteorite may have been responsible for a water plume briefly spotted above Europa two years ago, implying it takes a very rare event to breach the ice on the...

Search for extraterrestrial intelligence extends to new realms

Mar 24, 2015 (SPX)

Astronomers have expanded the search for extraterrestrial intelligence into a new realm with detectors tuned to infrared light. Their new instrument has just be...

Milky Way may host billions of planets in 'habitable' zones: study

Mar 18, 2015 (AFP)

The Milky Way galaxy may be home to billions of planets orbiting their host stars in a "habitable zone" where life could theoretically exist, researchers said W...

Iron-oxidizing bacteria found along Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)

Bacteria that live on iron were found for the first time at three well-known vent sites along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, one of the longest undersea mountain range...

Colorful life-form catalog will help discern if we're alone

Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)

While looking for life on planets beyond our own solar system, a group of international scientists has created a colorful catalog containing reflection signatur...

Saturn moon's ocean may have hydrothermal activity

Mar 13, 2015 (SPX)

A new study by a team of Cassini mission scientists led by the University of Colorado Boulder have found that microscopic grains of rock detected near Saturn im...