01 December 2017
Search for life more difficult than previously assumed
... simulations into wind patterns suggests that the task could become a whole lot harder. Looking for life on other planets was never going to be easy with current technology and the best example we have of what an alien atmosphere...
02 November 2016
How life on Mars might be 'sniffed out' by BILI
... the air to detect potentially life-threatening chemicals, toxins, and pathogens and now this same technology is being developed to detect organic bio-signatures on other planets. BILI works on a similar principle to other types of remote sensing...
20 November 2019
Insects on Mars, fungi on Venus. Evidence is presented for life on our neighbouring planets
...was identified and described, it was useful in facilitating recognition of other less clear, but none-the-less valid, images of the... from Earth that has led to these planets being seeded with life. These include; extremophiles attached to dust ...
23 December 2020
Harmful stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets after all, new study says
...of ultraviolet (UV) radiation from reaching the ground. If allowed to penetrate through our planet's atmosphere unheeded, it could have a damaging impact on surface life. But despite the damage these unpredictable and often violent stellar flares can...
06 March 2020
Life in the Universe could be common, but not near us says study
... – that life exists elsewhere in the cosmos, but just how certain are scientists that our planet is not ...when strung together makes the shape of a soccer ball. RNA on the other hand is made of monomers called nucleotides and each nucleotide is made up...
23 June 2021
Exoplanets with Earth-like biospheres may be rare
... not right, then the essential ingredients to make a planet habitable for life as we know, such as liquid water and a ...our galaxy, this result indicates that Earth-like conditions on other planets may be much less common than we might hope,” Giovanni ...
