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Chilean telescope finds sugar molecules near star
Aug 29, 2012 (AFP)
Astronomers using a powerful radio telescope in Chile said Wednesday that they had discovered sugar molecules, one of the building blocks of life, orbiting a yo...
Alien encounter could be bad news
Aug 27, 2012 (UPI)
An alien encounter may not be a pleasant one and it is probably unwise for human beings to be advertising our location, an American Nobel Prize winner says. "I ...
The Astrobiology Analytical Lab at Goddard
Aug 07, 2012 (SPX)
When Daniel Glavin isn't designing a chemistry experiment to run from millions of miles away, he's a researcher in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory at NAS...
Newfound gene may help bacteria survive in extreme environments
Jul 31, 2012 (SPX)
In the days following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, methane-eating bacteria bloomed in the Gulf of Mexico, feasting on the methane that gushed, along wi...
Scientists say NASA's 'new form of life' was untrue
Jul 09, 2012 (AFP)
Two new scientific papers have disproved a controversial claim made by NASA-funded scientists in 2010 that a new form of bacterial life had been discovered that...
SETI on the SKA
Jun 27, 2012 (SPX)
It was a vision of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence that was never meant to be. In 1971 NASA's Ames Research Center, under the direction of two of S...
The Origin of Life Challenge
Jun 26, 2012 (SPX)
In 2011, retired chemist and entrepreneur Harry Lonsdale announced his plans to fund research on how life originally formed. Of the 76 proposals submitted to hi...
The toughest life on Earth
Jun 25, 2012 (ESA)
You can freeze it, thaw it, vacuum dry it and expose it to radiation but still life survives. ESA's research on the International Space Station is giving credib...
Russian Cosmonauts Have 'Alien Instructions'
Jun 22, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
The UN has developed detailed instructions in case of a first contact with aliens, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka said answering a question on Chinese TV. "T...
CU-Boulder-led team finds microbes in extreme environment on South American volcanoes
Jun 12, 2012 (SPX)
A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy f...
Unique microbes found in extreme environment
Jun 12, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers who were looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth have found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of r...
Why SETI Counts
Jun 04, 2012 (SPX)
Are we alone in the universe? It's probably the greatest question posed by space exploration. It fascinates scientists and the general public. It's important an...
Arctic bacteria help in the search to find life on moon Europa
May 31, 2012 (SPX)
In a fjord in Canada scientists have found a landscape similar to one of Jupiter's icy moons: Europa. It consists of a frozen and sulphurous environment, where ...
Seeking Signs of Life at the Glacier's Edge
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
Microbes living at the edges of Arctic ice sheets could help researchers pinpoint evidence for similar microorganisms that could have evolved on Mars, the Jovia...
Famed US alien seeker shifts gaze back to Earth
May 22, 2012 (AFP)
After decades spent scanning the heavens for signs of life elsewhere in the cosmos, astronomer Jill Tarter is stepping back, and letting a colleague take charge...
Ammonites Found Mini Oases at Ancient Methane Seeps
May 21, 2012 (SPX)
Research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History shows that ammonites-an extinct type of shelled mollusk that's closely related to modern-da...
Is a new form of life really so alien?
May 09, 2012 (SPX)
The idea of discovering a new form of life has not only excited astronomers and astrobiologists for decades, but also the wider public. The notion that we are t...
Microbes Go Rafting on Floating Volcanic Rocks
May 02, 2012 (SPX)
Volcanoes bring death and destruction, but out of the ashes life soon finds fertile ground. A unique experiment is sifting through floating debris from an ongoi...
Expectation of extraterrestrial life built more on optimism than evidence
Apr 30, 2012 (SPX)
Recent discoveries of planets similar to Earth in size and proximity to the planets' respective suns have sparked scientific and public excitement about the pos...
Did Exploding Stars Help Life On Earth To Thrive?
Apr 26, 2012 (SPX)
Research by a Danish physicist suggests that the explosion of massive stars - supernovae - near the Solar System has strongly influenced the development of life...
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