Alien Life
Read News related to Alien life or Extraterrestrial life on -or- outside Earth, life beyond earth, latest updates and news on alien hypothetical life forms. Know about EPFL scientist Claudio Grimaldi’s new tool to detect signals that an extraterrestrial society might emit, distant solar system object distant object far beyond Pluto with an orbit that supports the presence of an even-farther-out, Super-Earth or larger Planet X and much more.
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Sep 18, 2018NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now providing valuable data to help scientists discover and study exciting new exoplanets. -
Sep 18, 2018A study simulating the final stages of terrestrial planet formation shows that ‘hit-and-run’ encounters play a significant role in the acquisition of water by large protoplanets, like those that grew into Mars and Earth. -
Sep 15, 2018Using the fossil record to accurately estimate the timing and pace of past mass extinctions is no easy task, and a new study highlights how fossil evidence can produce a misleading picture if not interpreted with care. -
Sep 10, 2018Machine learning algorithms applied to Listen data from the Green Bank Telescope find new pulses from the mysterious repeating source FRB 121102. Machine learning algorithm also helping Listen search for new kinds of candidate signals from extraterrestrial intelligence. -
Sep 6, 2018At the end of its life, a red supergiant star explodes in a hydrogen-rich supernova. By comparing observation results to simulation models, an international research team found that in many cases this explosion takes place inside a thick cloud of circumstellar matter shrouding the star. -
Sep 1, 2018An expedition that will help NASA search for life in deep space launched today – not with a rocket’s roar, but with a gentle splash into the deep Pacific Ocean. -
Aug 26, 2018Scientists describe a transitional root fossils from the earliest land ecosystem that sheds light on how roots have evolved. -
Aug 23, 2018The John W. Kluge Center has opened the competition for the 2019 Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology. -
Aug 14, 2018A NASA scientist wants to create a planetary robot that would mimic what biologists do every day in terrestrial laboratories: look through microscopes to visually identify microbial life living in samples. -
Aug 10, 2018How ethics as well as science should drive the planetary protection discussion.
