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Team Develops More Tools to Help Search For Life in Deep Space

Are we alone in the universe? An answer to that age-old question has seemed tantalizingly within reach since the discovery of ice-encrusted moons in our solar system with potentially habitable subsurface oceans. But looking for evidence of life in a frigid sea hundreds of millions of miles away in deep space poses tremendous challenges. The science ...

Troy Oakes

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Could Meteorites Have Generated the Blueprint for Life?

Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be discovered in samples from meteorites. While it is unlikely that DNA could be formed in a meteorite, this discovery demonstrates that these genetic parts are available for delivery and could have ...

Troy Oakes

Conceptual image of meteoroids delivering nucleobases to ancient Earth. The nucleobases are represented by structural diagrams with hydrogen atoms as white spheres, carbon as black, nitrogen as blue and oxygen as red.

Breakthrough Listen Scans Milky Way Galaxy for Beacons of Civilization

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative released data from the most comprehensive survey yet of radio emissions from the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy and the region around its central black hole, and it is inviting the public to search the data for signals from intelligent civilizations. At a media briefing in Seattle as part of ...

Troy Oakes

A nearby planet signalling Earth.

‘Racing Certainty’ There’s Life on Europa, Says Leading UK Space Scientist

It’s “almost a racing certainty” there’s alien life on Jupiter’s moon Europa — and Mars could be hiding primitive microorganisms, too. That’s the view of leading British space scientist Professor Monica Grady, who says the notion of undiscovered life in our galaxy isn’t nearly as far-fetched as we might expect. Professor Grady, a Professor of Planetary ...

Troy Oakes

Spacecraft flying past Europa.

Are We Part of an Intergalactic Federation of Worlds? Some Say Yes!

While scientists at NASA and other space agencies are yet to confirm the existence of aliens, some speculate that not only do extra-terrestrial life forms live among us, but that Earth is actually part of a vast intergalactic federation of worlds. Two organizations that stick to this view are “The Galactic Federation of Worlds” and ...

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Lao Zi riding a cow.