September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... before. A famous astrobiologist and one of my role models Lynn Rothschild said, “Alas, scientists have discovered that life on Earth has already done that - and has done so for billions of years.” Scientists have found extremophiles everywhere...
December 2017
Dressing up for space
...people regain the pleasure of eating food. Tourist in space The aim was to find a relationship between life in space and life on Earth connecting the two environments (di Agostina Issolio, Aleksandra Obradovic and Barbara Lopes de Oliveira) This drew...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... planetary exploration is planetary protection, i.e. the need to not contaminate any possible habitable environments with microbial life from Earth. This is of great concern as, unfortunately, scientists have found that there are microbes that can...
31 July 2017
Complex chemistry on Titan may form membranes
... with liquid methane suggests the intriguing possibility of chemical processes that are analogous to those important for life on Earth," said Maureen Palmer, a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author...
03 August 2018
Plate tectonics not needed for life, but UV light is
... (MRC LMB) have identified a group of planets where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth exist. The type of light is ultraviolet (UV) light - the wavelength of light that burns your skin if you don...
20 November 2019
Insects on Mars, fungi on Venus. Evidence is presented for life on our neighbouring planets
... 13 took before succumbing to its quick demise. Joseph, who is an advocate of directed panspermia – a hypothesis which suggests that life on Earth did not originate on our planet, but was transported here from somewhere else in the Universe – says...
