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Here’s Why We Need to Find Alien Life: Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains
The Search for Life Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of the recent Cosmos reboot, would like to know within 50 years if there’s any life in our backyard—Mars,...
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A Solar System with Three Earths? Astronomers Find a Trio of Potentially...
Earth 2.0 (x3) European astronomers, using the Belgian TRAPPIST telescope, have detected the signatures of three very small worlds lurking in the periodic dimming of a nearby red dwarf star. The star...
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Martian Aliens Must Wait—ExoMars Mission Delayed Two Years
Part two of the ExoMars mission won’t get off the ground until 2020—a delay of two years from its planned launch in 2018. The European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space...
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Study Asserts That Earth is Not The First Intelligent Civilization In The...
The Truth is Out There Are we alone? It is, perhaps, one of the most significant questions human beings have ever asked—right up there with “Why are we here?” and “How did it all begin?” Indeed, as...
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Searching for Life: NASA Evidence Shows Europa is Far More Earth-Like Than...
Looking Better All the Time Jupiter’s moon Europa may not seem like the most promising candidate for life in our Solar System. It has no atmosphere to speak of, for one thing. For another, it’s...
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Billions of Years Ago, Mega-Tsunamis Washed Across Mars
Surf’s Up Roughly 3.4 billion years ago, a giant meteorite smacked into the northern plains of Mars. Not too surprising, perhaps, considering the crater-strewn surface of the Red Planet, which is a...
View ArticleThis Summer: The First Ever DNA Sequencing in Micro-Gravity
DNA has been popularized by more than just science in recent years. Movies, TV, and even YouTube stars have come to glamorize the molecule as an icon of science fiction. And in just a few short months...
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New Evidence Confirms That Microorganisms Can Survive on Mars
Bits of life It turns out there may actually be life on Mars, but not in the way that many have hoped for. According to a year-long study by a team of astrobiologists at the University of Arkansas...
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Why Looking for Aliens Is Good for Society (Even If There Aren’t Any)
Alien Life The search for life elsewhere in the universe is one of the most compelling aspects of modern science. Given its scientific importance, significant resources are devoted to this young...
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Due to Human Impact, the Earth is Now Considered a “Hybrid Planet”
The New Scheme Researchers have developed a new classification system for planets, based on the reality of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. That sounds really complicated, but in simpler terms, the new...
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Geoengineering May Be Our Only Hope for Surviving Climate Change
Engineering the Planet While every small effort to combat the pressing problem of climate change helps, the situation may progress to the point that humanity has no choice but to take bold action in...
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Oxford Biologists Outline What Alien Life Looks Like
Strange, But Familiar When picturing our potential extraterrestrial neighbors, it’s human nature to imagine that they look something like us: bipedal, with dextrous hands and a face plan much like ours...
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Scientists May Have Found the Chemical Compound That Started Life
Origins of Life The origins of life on Earth remain a mystery. Many have theorized and hypothesized on the matter, but no ideas have been thoroughly proven; those early years of emerging life on Earth...
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NASA Is Considering Sending a “Dragonfly” Drone to an Alien World
Sending a “Dragonfly” Drone to an Alien World With its vast oceans and methane-filled rivers and lakes, Titan is a prime candidate for the search for extraterrestrial life. While our knowledge of...
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Life Exists in the Driest Desert on Earth. It Could Exist on Mars, Too.
Atacama Analogue When we think of the potential for life on planetary bodies besides Earth, we automatically look for water. Whether it be growing at the bottom of Europa’s ocean or swimming in Titan’s...
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Hazy Experiments Could Teach Us About Alien Life
We know of many planets orbiting outside the solar system that, according to scientists, could potentially hold the ingredients responsible for life. However, they are often so far away we can’t glean...
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