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Detecting Life-Friendly Moons Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2009 
Forty years ago, the Apollo astronauts traipsed across our Moon, making it "inhabited" for the first time - albeit for only two and half hours. A bona-fide habitable moon has never been found, but astronomers are considering how we might find one around distant stars. "I think exomoons are just as interesting as exoplanets," says David Kipping of University College London. In our own ... read moreAstronomers Again Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2009Peering far beyond our solar system, NASA researchers have detected the basic chemistry for life in a second hot gas planet, advancing astronomers toward the goal of being able to characterize planets where life could exist. The planet is not habitable but it has the same chemistry that, if found around a rocky planet in the future, could indicate the presence of life. "It's the second ... more
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Islands Of Life Across Space And Time
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 07, 2009A new study by the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo shows the first quantitative evaluation of planetary habitability. The study identifies some potential habitats in the solar system and also shows how the habitability of our planet has changed in the past, with some periods being even better than today. Abel Mendez presented his results on Monday, October 5, at the 41st Annual ... more Aliens In The News 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2009They're body snatchers invading human bodies and taking over society; they're E.T. and The Man Who Fell to Earth trying desperately to get home. They're a malign new crustacean life form with multiple sets of acid-drooling jaws that uses our bodies as incubators, vessels to spread its population throughout the galaxy. Since the early days of film, Hollywood has capitalized on our ... more Looking For Life As We Don't Know It 
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2009Scientists at a new interdisciplinary research group in Austria are working to uncover how life might evolve with "exotic" biochemistry and solvents, such as sulfuric acid instead of water. Their research will be presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam by Johannes Leitner. The University of Vienna established a research group for Alternative Solvents as a Basis for ... more Space Hand-Me-Downs 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2009Molecules vital to life have been detected in outer space and isolated in meteorites and comets. Some of this material that rained down on Earth may have jump-started biology. If so, these space seeds also may have planted a particular molecular orientation, or "handedness," that spread to the world's first creatures. New research is studying how this handedness could arise in space. ... more |
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Research Reveals Major Insight Into Evolution Of Life On Earth
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2009Humans might not be walking on Earth today if not for the ancient fusing of two microscopic, single-celled organisms called prokaryotes, NASA-funded research has found. By comparing proteins present in more than 3000 different prokaryotes - a type of single-celled organism without a nucleus - molecular biologist James A. Lake from the University of California at Los Angeles' Center for ... more Glycine In The Grid 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 20, 2009NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. "Glycine is an amino acid used by living organisms to make proteins, and this is the first time an amino acid has been found in a comet," said Dr. Jamie Elsila of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "Our discovery supports ... more NASA Researchers Make First Discovery Of Life's Building Block In Comet 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 18, 2009NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. "Glycine is an amino acid used by living organisms to make proteins, and this is the first time an amino acid has been found in a comet," said Dr. Jamie Elsila of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "Our discovery supports the ... more British UFO sightings spiked when blockbusters released 
London (AFP) Aug 17, 2009Lemon-headed aliens, scrambled fighter jets and mysterious lights over a cemetery were among details of some 800 UFO sightings released by British authorities Monday. But another intriguing finding to emerge from the 1981-1996 archives was a surge in reports at the time of UFO-related blockbusters such as 1996's "Independence Day," not to mention the British television run of "The X-Files." ... more |
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