Why freezing cold worlds could be our best bet for alien life in the solar system
New research underscores the physics of potential oceans on moons like Europa and Enceladus where aliens could hide ...
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What Would Happen If a New Planet Formed in the Solar System?
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Desert planets like those in 'Dune' and 'Star Wars' unlikely to host life, NASA says
"Even if a planet is in the habitable zone, if it has too small a water inventory, it transitions to an uninhabitable state." ...
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Organic molecules found throughout the universe hint that life began in deep space
Asteroids and comets reveal complex organic molecules which form in space and might have contributed to Earth’s early biology ...
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What If a Black Hole Emerged in Our Solar System?
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How we might look for life in the universe — even if we can’t recognize it
We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life ... when a first detection of life beyond Earth will happen. It might be within the solar system, or by sniffing exoplanet ...
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Do We Live in a Special Part of the Universe?
According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...
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'Mathematically perfect' star system discovered 105 light-years from Earth may still be in its infancy. Could that change its prospects for life?
Once thought to be 8 billion years old, the star HD 110067 — famous for its six synchronized exoplanets — may be only 2.5 ...
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NASA executive Leslie Livesay: ‘We’re getting closer to being able to answer if there is life beyond Earth’
A. This year we renewed the agreement between NASA and Spain, a significant milestone for the future of the Madrid Deep Space ...
Scientists Say We May Have Been Wrong About the Origin of Life
In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...
NASA collected potential evidence of life on Mars. Now it’s pitching new plans to retrieve the cache
NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if the cache can make it back in the 2030s.