07 July 2021
Methane detected on Enceladus could be a sign of life, study shows
... reactions. Alternatively, it could be a combination of the two; unknown processes at work coupled with methane-producing microbial life. “Obviously, we are not concluding that life exists in Enceladus' ocean," Ferriere says but we can't discard the...
26 April 2021
Microbes could potentially live beneath Mars' surface, new study suggests
... surface of Mars, but if it did, we think there would be ample energy there to sustain it right up to today,” Tarnas added. If microbial life is present, then scientists might not have to wait too far in the future to find out, as ambling across...
15 October 2018
SETI partners with MeerKAT to search for alien life
... points out, amongst other things, that given how resilient life has been at surviving in some of the most extreme ...Earth, NASA should use this as an example and focus on searching for life below the surface of a planet. It is also not enough says ...
14 July 2021
Phosphine gas on Venus points to volcanism not life, study says
... conditions among the planet’s sulphuric-laden clouds. Now another new study also dispels the notion of microbial life as it reports that volcanism on our planetary neighbour is enough to account for this intriguing gas signature – a finding which...
27 July 2018
A pool of liquid water found under Mars' south pole
...that simply were not possible before,” added Cicchetti. Microbial life survives some of the harshest conditions on Earth, ...on Mars also provide a suitable breeding ground for this type of life-form, either now or in the past? “This thrilling discovery...
20 November 2019
Insects on Mars, fungi on Venus. Evidence is presented for life on our neighbouring planets
... two separate studies, who in the last week have presented research in favour of extant (and extinct) biological life forms on Mars and fungi on Venus. Yesterday at the national meeting of the Entomological Society of America, in St. Louis, Missouri...