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 22, 2019NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, a four-limbed robot named LEMUR (Limbed Excursion Mechanical Utility Robot) can scale rock walls, gripping with hundreds of tiny fishhooks in each of its 16 fingers and using artificial intelligence (AI) to find its way around obstacles.
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Aug 1, 2019Advancing our search for the building blocks of life, the Dragonfly mission will fly multiple sorties to sample and examine sites around Saturn’s icy moon.
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Jul 29, 2019A new paper, published in the journal Icarus, lays out how we may be able to probe the deep waters of Europa from their expression on the surface.
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Jul 20, 2019An interdisciplinary research group from Aarhus University has proposed a previously overlooked physical-chemical process that can explain methane's consumption on Mars.
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Jun 21, 2019As planets form in the swirling gas and dust around young stars, there seems to be a sweet spot where most of the large, Jupiter-like gas giants congregate, centered around the orbit where Jupiter sits today in our own solar system.
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Jan 28, 2019Each of NASA’s international astrobiology partners take a different tack in looking for the answer to the question of whether there is life elsewhere in the Universe. A creative, multi-pronged investigation is necessary with such a complicated problem.
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Jan 21, 2019The centre, which was established in 2011 and began operations in 2013, includes philosophers and social scientists, as well as engineers, biologists and physicists.
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Dec 29, 2018The essential building blocks of life have been discovered emanating from the subsurface ocean of one of Saturn’s moons.
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Dec 20, 2018In their search for life in solar systems near and far, researchers have often accepted the presence of oxygen in a planet’s atmosphere as the surest sign that life may be present there. A new Johns Hopkins study, however, recommends a reconsideration of that rule
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Nov 28, 2018Scientists have discovered nearly two dozen new types of microbes, many of which use hydrocarbons such as methane and butane as energy sources to survive and grow.