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Telescopes search for signals from space Mountain View, Calif. (UPI) May 7, 2008 
U.S. scientists, searching for signs of life from faraway planets, are building hundreds of radio telescopes in Northern California, their leader says. Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, said 42 of the planned 350 telescopes have been built in a mostly uninhabited area about 300 miles northeast of San Jose, Calif., the San Jose Mercury News repo ... read more |
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The Astrobiology Universe
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 30, 2008The opening speaker at the 2008 Astrobiology Science Conference, Lord Martin Rees of the University of Cambridge, said that our universe may just be one of many. Multiple universes could be stacked sideways like sheets of paper, separated by only a thin margin of space. We would never know they were there unless we could be awakened to the existence of that other dimension. This could have ... more Is There Anybody Out There 
Norwich, UK (SPX) Apr 18, 2008Is there anybody out there? Probably not, according to a scientist from the University of East Anglia. A mathematical model produced by Prof Andrew Watson suggests that the odds of finding new life on other Earth-like planets are low, given the time it has taken for beings such as humans to evolve and the remaining life span of Earth. Structurally complex and intelligent life evolved late ... more Intelligence: A Rare Cosmic Commodity 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 15, 2008Advanced ground and space-based telescopes are discovering new planets around other stars almost daily, but an environmental scientist from England believes that even if some of those planets turn out to be Earth-like, the odds are very low they'll have intelligent inhabitants. In a recent paper published in the journal Astrobiology, Professor Andrew Watson of the University of East Anglia descr ... more A Vision For Exploration 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 01, 2008There are many fascinating places in our solar system to explore, but space missions are dangerous and expensive. Sending robots instead of people helps reduce these drawbacks. For this kind of exploration, Professor Bernard Foing looks to the Moon, Mars and beyond, hoping to discover tantalising secrets useful to astrobiologists. Foing is the senior research coordinator at the European ... more A World Of Possibilities Gives Perspective On Life On Enceladus 
Houston TX (JSC) Mar 28, 2008Could microbial life exist inside Enceladus, where no sunlight reaches, photosynthesis is impossible and no oxygen is available? To answer that question, we need look no farther than our own planet to find examples of the types of exotic ecosystems that could make life possible on Saturn's geyser moon. The answer appears to be, yes, it could be possible. It is this tantalizing potential that ... more |
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Moffet Field CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2008Nigel Mason is director of research at the Centre of Molecular and Optical Science at the Open University in the UK. One of the Centre's main focuses of study is on Astrobiology, specifically on determining how simple molecules such as methane, ammonia or water found in the interstellar medium can be transformed into the building blocks of biochemistry. In this interview with Astrobiology ... more Cosmic Cockroaches Develop Faster 
Voronezh, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 18, 2008Cockroaches conceived in space onboard the Russian Foton-M bio satellite have developed faster and become hardier than 'terrestrial' ones, a research supervisor said on Thursday. The research team has been monitoring the cockroaches since they were born in October. The scientists established that their limbs and bodies grew faster. "What is more, we have found out that the creatures ... more Life On The Borderline 
Boston MA (SPX) Jan 17, 2008Our planet is changing before our eyes, and as a result, many species are living on the edge. Yet Earth has been on the edge of habitability from the beginning. New work by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that if Earth had been slightly smaller and less massive, it would not have plate tectonics - the forces that move continents and build mountains. And witho ... more SETI Project Looking For More Volunteers 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2008The longest-running search for radio signals from alien civilizations is getting a burst of new data from an upgraded Arecibo telescope, which means the SETI@home project needs more desktop computers to help crunch the data. Since SETI@home launched eight years ago, the project based at the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory has signed up more than 5 million int ... more Red Dust In Planet-Forming Disk May Harbor Precursors To Life 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 04, 2008Astronomers at the Carnegie Institution have found the first indications of highly complex organic molecules in the disk of red dust surrounding a distant star. The eight-million-year-old star, known as HR 4796A, is inferred to be in the late stages of planet formation, suggesting that the basic building blocks of life may be common in planetary systems. In a study published in the current ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 25, 2007In May 2007, Victoria Meadows, Principal Investigator for the Virtual Planetary Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology's Spitzer Science Center, presented a lecture at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In part three of this six-part edited series, she pieces together the lines of evidence that will indicate whether a planet is able to support life. "When we find planets around a st ... more Location, Location, Location 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2007The Voyager 1 spacecraft, after traveling about 4 billion miles into space, turned around and looked back home. From such a distance, the Earth appeared as a pale blue dot, a single point of light suspended in the vast blackness of space. If aliens from much more distant worlds were to look at our solar system, the Earth, if it could be seen at all, would seem even more tiny and faint. How could ... more The Light Of Alien Life 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 18, 2007The Voyager 1 spacecraft, after traveling about 4 billion miles into space, turned around and looked back home. From such a distance, the Earth appeared as a pale blue dot, a single point of light suspended in the vast blackness of space. If aliens from much more distant worlds were to look at our solar system, the Earth, if it could be seen at all, would seem even more tiny and faint. How ... more NASA Collaborates With Russia On Foton-M3 Mission 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 12, 2007NASA is collaborating with Russia on a new robotic mission to conduct biological studies. The Russian Foton-M3 mission is scheduled for launch Sept. 14, 2007, from Kazakhstan, and NASA scientists will participate in several of the mission's experiments. NASA scientists hope the data obtained from the Foton-M3 mission will improve research techniques. The experiments will increase ... more The Protocell Project 
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Sep 11, 2007At the Los Alamos National Laboratory, scientists are trying to create life. No slimy blobs have yet oozed their way out of a beaker of primordial soup, but scientists are combining some of the most basic elements of life to see if they can make non-living chemistry behave in a life-like way. Cracking the mysterious barrier between life and non-life could give us a clue to how life originated ... more
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