A politician in Sri Lanka says a team of "white gentlemen" from an international space agency tried to steal meteor fragments that prove alien life exists in order to hide from the world that "creationism is a blatant lie."
Read More »Odd distribution of organics in Titan’s atmosphere could be a sign of extraterrestrial life
A recent, brief observation of Saturn’s moon Titan revealed unusual groupings of organic molecules in the atmosphere. Scientists made the discovery while observing Titan’s atmosphere using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile’s Atacama desert. “A single 3 minute ...
Read More »NASA funding stimulates the search for extraterrestrial life
New funding announced by NASA will aid astrobiologists in the search for extraterrestrial life. NASA announced on Monday, October 6 that it has awarded nearly $50 million to seven research teams “to study the origins, evolution, distribution and future of ...
Read More »Astrobiologists say proof of extraterrestrial life abundant
A team of astrobiologists say they have amassed enough evidence to prove life exists outside of planet Earth.
Read More »German space agency chimes in on discovery of sea plankton on ISS
Last month, Russian scientists said they discovered sea plankton on the International Space Station (ISS) that might be alive and thriving. NASA shed doubt on the discovery and little has been said since. However, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) recently responded to questions on the issue confirming the discovery of "bacterial DNA," but casting doubt on other aspects of the Russian report.
Read More »Another meteorite supports the likelihood of Martian life
New research on a Martian meteorite supports the idea that Mars has the right conditions to support life. Scientists from the UK and Greece found something interesting in a piece of the Nakhla meteorite, which fell to Earth in 1911 ...
Read More »Antarctic microbes help in the search for extraterrestrial life
A team of scientists has discovered living microbes in a subglacial lake below Antarctica. Researchers with the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project successfully drilled through the Antarctic ice reaching Lake Whillans in January 2013. After collecting ...
Read More »Sea plankton found in space
Russian scientists say they have found traces of sea plankton on the surface of the International Space Station (ISS), proving that life can survive in the harsh conditions of space.
Read More »Microbes found in an asphalt lake modify the search for alien life
Scientists discovered microorganisms living inside a giant asphalt lake on Earth, which suggests that life could exist in similar environments on other worlds. Astrobiologists search for life existing in extreme environments, known as extremophiles, to enhance the understanding of the ...
Read More »NASA scientists agree that aliens are out there
NASA held a panel discussion on Monday, July 14 in which scientists discussed extraterrestrial life. The televised discussion took place at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC, and featured leading science and engineering experts who discussed the search for life beyond ...
Read More »Alien world Gliese 832c may support life
A recently discovered planet that is relatively close to Earth may be home to alien life. A team of astronomers discovered Gliese 832c by analyzing data collected by three instruments: The University College London Échelle Spectrograph (UCLES) on the Anglo-Australian ...
Read More »NASA testing an underwater alien-hunting robot
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are testing an early version of an underwater rover that could one day be used in the search for extraterrestrial life by exploring subsurface oceans on alien worlds. Time magazine explains that this prototype, ...
Read More »Construction begins on a new alien-hunting telescope
Workers took the first step in building the world’s largest optical and infrared telescope on Thursday, June 19 by blowing up the top of a mountain. This alien-hunting telescope will be how large? The answer is extremely large. As its ...
Read More »Subsurface liquid water may have existed on Pluto’s moon Charon
Researchers believe Pluto’s moon Charon may have been warm enough at one point in time to sustain an underground ocean of liquid water. The surface temperature on this icy world is estimated to be nearly three hundred degrees Fahrenheit below ...
Read More »Jupiter’s radio signals could help find aliens
Astrobiologists are excited about the possibility of extraterrestrial life on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Evidence suggests this icy moon is home to a vast subsurface ocean. But until tools land on the moon to drill through the ice, ice-penetrating radar is ...
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Complex alien life could exist on 100 million planets
A new study asserts that the Milky Way is home to one hundred million planets that could support alien life. And not just simple microbial life, but complex alien life. A scientific team comprised of Louis Irwin from the University ...
Read More »Extraterrestrials and UFOs discussed on Capitol Hill: Congress giggles
When Congress discusses the search for intelligent life in the universe and the seemingly related topic of UFOs it usually falls under the purview of the House science committee. Exceptions were when the Pentagon was still examining the phenomena in ...
Read More »Can alien life develop around hotter stars?
Scientists searching for life as we know it on alien worlds typically focus on planets around stars like our own G-type sun. And some scientists believe that life can also develop on planets orbiting smaller, cooler stars. But a recent ...
Read More »Introducing the most potentially habitable alien world so far
On Thursday, April 17, NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, an exoplanet with the greatest likelihood of containing life. A team of researchers published findings related to the discovery of Kepler-186f in the journal Science. The team identified the planet ...
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