Tagged: alien life

In recent years, the number of confirmed extra-solar planets has risen exponentially. As of the penning of the article, a total of 3,777 exoplanets have been confirmed in 2,817 star systems, with an additional 2,737 candidates awaiting confirmation. What’s more, the number of terrestrial (i.e....

“Are we alone in the universe?” The question has fascinated, tantalized and even disconcerted humans for as long as we can remember. So far, it would seem that intelligent extraterrestrial life—at least as fits our narrow definition of it—is nowhere to be found. Theories and...

In a research breakthrough funded by NASA, scientists have synthesized a molecular system that, like DNA, can store and transmit information. This unprecedented feat suggests there could be an alternative to DNA-based life, as we know it on Earth – a genetic system for life...

EVIDENCE of alien life could be hidden on the Moon, according to a recent scientific paper. A US physicist has developed a new version of an alien life hunting equation and thinks we should be looking for artefacts and spacecraft designed by extraterrestrials. James Benford’s...

Researchers aim to set aside differences in search for life on distant spheres. An artist’s impression of Kepler-186f, the first Earth-sized exoplanet found in a habitable zone. Planet hunters hope to produce a strategy for assessing whether there might be life on such worlds. Scott...

The Earth’s biosphere contains all the known ingredients necessary for life as we know it. Broadly speaking these are: liquid water, at least one source of energy, and an inventory of biologically useful elements and molecules. But the recent discovery of possibly biogenic phosphine in...

BRITISH scientists have claimed alien lifeforms may have evolved in a similar way to the organisms here on Earth. A new study from the University of Oxford suggested that the process of natural selection which created the myriad species we see here on Earth is...

LIFE is pretty easy to recognise. It moves, it grows, it eats, it excretes, it reproduces. Simple. In biology, researchers often use the acronym “MRSGREN” to describe it. It stands for movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition. But Helen Sharman, Britain’s first astronaut...

MARS probably has alien life lurking at its icy poles, astronomers say. The icy Martian poles may have trapped “dormant or slow-metabolising” life – and offer hope in the quest for finding life beyond Earth. Humans have long suspected that life could be hiding out...

MICROSCOPIC life can survive in the cold, darkness of space for at least three years, according to scientists studying bacterial colonies outside of the International Space Station. The discovery by Japanese experts suggests that alien microbes may hop between planets by piggybacking on asteroids or...