Has Curiosity Found Fossilized Life on Mars?"Time and time again, as we carefully scrutinize the amazing high-resolution imagery flowing to Earth from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, we see weird things etched in Martian rocks. Most of the time our brains are playing tricks on us. At other times, however, those familiar rocky features can be interpreted as processes that also occur on Earth..."Posted: 07 January 2015 - Category: Life in Space - Source: news.discovery.com Read more at news.discovery.com > |
Super-Sensitive Motion Sensor Could Be Used to Hunt for ET"People often state that certain planets are too hot, cold or toxic to support life. The catch, however, is that those people are really just talking about life as we know it here on Earth..."Posted: 01 January 2015 - Category: Life in Space - Source: gizmag.com Read more at gizmag.com > |
Lettuce Mission to Mars Could Put Life on Red Planet by 2018"Lettuce could be the first life to land on Mars if a team of students succeeds in their plan to grow salad on the planet in 2018..."Posted: 30 December 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: independent.co.uk Read more at independent.co.uk > |
NASA Mars Rover Photo Reveals 'Alien Coffin'"While recent discoveries by the NASA Curiosity Rover indicate that there may actually be some form of life on Mars, UFO watchers believe they’ve found evidence of death on Mars as well. A video posted Saturday appears to show an object that looks strangely like a coffin on the Martian surface, in a photo snapped by the rover..."Posted: 30 December 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: inquisitr.com Read more at inquisitr.com > |
'Coal' Found in Meteorite Strengthens Case for Life on Mars"Nasa announced last week that its rover had found methane gas on Mars, and around the time a Chinese-led team of scientists has reported finding an organic, coal-like substance in a meteorite knocked off the Red Planet. Both discoveries are prompting debate about life on earth's neighbour..."Posted: 24 December 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: scmp.com Read more at scmp.com > |
Curiosity Rover Finds Water and Organics Inside Martian Rock"NASA's Curiosity rover is continuing to help scientists piece together the mystery of how Mars lost its surface water over the course of billions of years..."Posted: 18 December 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: mashable.com Read more at mashable.com > |
Gold Disk Found on Mars?"Another odd object -- a gold disk -- has been spotted in a Mars photo, taken by the Mars Curiosity rover and spotted by another UFO enthusiast trying to find evidence of life on Mars or evidence that UFOs are intelligently controlled. Considering that the gold image in the photo is disk-shaped with what appears to be a raised circular center (much in keeping with traditional disk-shaped UFOs), it lends itself to broad speculation. So what is it -- an artifact? A rock? A grounded unidentified flying object?.."Posted: 18 December 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: examiner.com Read more at examiner.com > |
Curiosity Detects Methane 'Belches' on Mars"The US space agency's (Nasa) Curiosity rover has detected the intermittent 'belching' of methane gas on Mars..."Posted: 16 December 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: bbc.co.uk Read more at bbc.co.uk > |
Meteorite Hints at Life on Mars"Our scientists are constantly searching for a trace of living things on other celestial bodies in the space. Though theories & counter-theories are produced every now and then, a recent evidence of life found on a meteorite hurled from our very neighboring planet Mars, has grabbed the world's attention..."Posted: 05 December 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: crazyengineers.com Read more at crazyengineers.com > |
DNA Survives Reentry Into Earth's Atmosphere"Rockets sent into space provide a laboratory to test how conditions in outer space impact DNA and potentially the presence of extraterrestrial life..."Posted: 29 November 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: designntrend.com Read more at designntrend.com > |
Physicist Claims Nuclear Explosions Ended Life on Mars"A plasma physicist is advancing a theory in which he claims to have evidence of two ancient nuclear explosions on Mars, events that he believes wiped out an ancient civilization on the red planet..."Posted: 22 November 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: inquisitr.com Read more at inquisitr.com > |
Organic Molecules Detected by Philae Comet Lander"The Philae lander has detected organic molecules on the surface of its comet, scientists have confirmed..."Posted: 20 November 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: bbc.co.uk Read more at bbc.co.uk > |
Could There Be Organic Matter on Mars?"The origins of organic matter found by Mars lander missions have long been debated, but a new study suggests a way to find out whether these chemicals of life came from the Red Planet or elsewhere..."Posted: 13 November 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: space.com Read more at space.com > |
A Colony on Mars Will Be the 'Next Giant Leap for Mankind'"Bas Lansdorp, CEO and co-founder of Mars One, is nothing if not ambitious. His dream is the stuff of science fiction -- not only does he want to put humans on Mars in 2025, but he wants to leave them there to establish a self-sufficient settlement..."Posted: 09 November 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: engadget.com Read more at engadget.com > |
'Space Agency Attempted to Steal Evidence of Alien Life'"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'..."Posted: 31 October 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: openminds.tv Read more at openminds.tv > |
'More People Believe in Aliens than God'"More Brits believe in aliens than God, research revealed today. A detailed study carried out among 1,500 adults and 500 kids, aged 8-12, found more than half of adults (51 per cent) believe in aliens, but only a quarter said the same of God..."Posted: 27 October 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: plymouthherald.co.uk Read more at plymouthherald.co.uk > |
'Celtic Cross' Discovered on Mars"UFO hunters have made a strange discovery in an image sent back by NASA’s Opportunity rover, revealing what appears to be a cross, surrounded by a circle, embedded in the otherworldly rock of Mars..."Posted: 20 October 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: inquisitr.com Read more at inquisitr.com > |
Humans on Mars 'Would Suffocate in Just 68 Days'"Massachusetts Institute of Technology has released a study that has found that humans would suffocate and die in just 68 days if they were sent to live on Mars through the Mars One mission..."Posted: 17 October 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: businessinsider.com.au Read more at businessinsider.com.au > |
NASA May Put Humans in Stasis for Real-Life Mars Missions"Depending on its position in orbit, it takes a long time to get to Mars from Earth, so NASA is seriously considering a method of putting astronauts in stasis to make the missions easier and hopefully avoid any warning beacons about dangerous xenomorphs..."Posted: 07 October 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: themarysue.com Read more at themarysue.com > |
The Incredible Picture That 'Proves' Aliens Exist"This astonishing image is the long-awaited proof that alien life DOES exist, scientists have sensationally claimed..."Posted: 04 October 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: express.co.uk Read more at express.co.uk > |
'Frog on Mars' is the Latest Odd Curiosity Snapshot"UFO enthusiasts and space fanatics are always on the lookout for signs of alien life on other planets, and it seems their prayers may have been answered after cameras on NASA’s Curiosity rover captured what looks like a frog on Mars..."Posted: 04 October 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: neonnettle.com Read more at neonnettle.com > |
'Your Religious Background Affects Your Belief in Aliens'"The truth is out there. But apparently, the 'truth' depends on your religious affiliation..."Posted: 04 October 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: shalomlife.com Read more at shalomlife.com > |
What Has NASA’s Curiosity Rover Just Found on Mars?"UFO enthusiasts have gone wild as NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover captured a series of surreal snaps this week, which hint that there may still be life on Mars..."Posted: 25 September 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: metro.co.uk Read more at metro.co.uk > |
Pope’s Astronomer Says ET is Out There"The Pope’s astronomer has spoken out on his belief that there is definitely life beyond Earth – and says he would happily baptise monstrosities from beyond the stars..."Posted: 25 September 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: metro.co.uk Read more at metro.co.uk > |
Are Aliens Hiding on Moons?"It's now almost 20 years since the first alien planet was discovered in orbit around a sun-like star. Since then huge advances have led to the discovery of more than a thousand extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, which are now being catalogued..."Posted: 13 September 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: dailymail.co.uk Read more at dailymail.co.uk > |
Astronauts May Grow Better Salads on Mars than on the Moon"Simulated Martian soil supports plant life, but questions about extraterrestrial plant growth remain..."Posted: 13 September 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: insidescience.org Read more at insidescience.org > |
NASA is Developing a Submarine to Explore Alien Oceans"Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, is the only other body in the solar system besides Earth with liquid oceans on its surface (Jupiter’s moon Europa has twice as much water as Earth, but it’s all locked away under solid ice). Earlier this year, NASA began developing a submarine to explore the depths in the depths of space..."Posted: 09 September 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: techly.com.au Read more at techly.com.au > |
Have Humans Already Conquered the Threat of Extinction?"The Great Filter theory suggests that all advanced civilizations eventually destroy themselves before acquiring the capacity to colonize space — a notion that could explain why we've never been visited by aliens. But there may be another reason for the celestial silence. Yes, the Great Filter exists, but we've already passed it. Here's what this would mean..."Posted: 04 September 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: io9.com Read more at io9.com > |
Russian Zero-G Sex Study Ends in Death"Russia's troubled experiment to study how geckos, fruit flies and other organisms reproduce in weightlessness ended with a huge downer: When the Foton M-4 satellite containing the creatures returned to Earth on Monday and the hatch was opened, researchers found that all five geckos had died. 'We can't say yet at which stage of Foton’s space flight it happened,' the RIA Novosti news agency quoted a source at the Russian Academy of Sciences as saying. Interfax quoted an unnamed source as saying the geckos were mummified and may have frozen to death..."Posted: 02 September 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: nbcnews.com Read more at nbcnews.com > |
The Many Strange Things Spotted on Mars"Everyone is looking for life or signs of it on Mars, and no one is looking harder than the 'amateur' sleuths combing through the many thousands of high-res photos sent back from Mars by rovers and satellites..."Posted: 29 August 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: blog.sfgate.com Read more at blog.sfgate.com > |
'Alien Thigh Bone' on Mars"More than two years into the Curiosity rover's lonely trek across Mars, conspiracy theorists believe they’ve struck gold: an 'alien thigh bone' has been spotted on the surface of the red planet..."Posted: 24 August 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: independent.co.uk Read more at independent.co.uk > |
Cell-Like Structure Disovered in Mars Meteorite"Scientists have discovered a strange, ovid structure resembling a cell inside a meteorite that fell to Earth early in the last century, and the astonishing find has revealed evidence that life could have once existed on Mars..."Posted: 24 August 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: inquisitr.com Read more at inquisitr.com > |
Rock Munching Microbes Expand Search for Alien Life"The search for alien life will have to include sub-glacial oceans now that scientists at Louisiana State University have found microbes in a freshwater lake trapped in Antarctic ice, surviving on a hearty diet of melting ice, other microorganisms, and rock, raising the odds that we could find life not just somewhere in the universe but in our own solar system..."Posted: 22 August 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: valuewalk.com Read more at valuewalk.com > |
Space Station Covered with Plankton Leaves Scientists Baffled"A strange discovery on the International Space Station has left scientists baffled. It turns out that the space station has traces of living sea plankton on the surface of the spacecraft that orbits more than 200 miles above the Earth’s surface, and well above the planet’s atmosphere..."Posted: 20 August 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: inquisitr.com Read more at inquisitr.com > |
California Wildfires Disrupt Search for Extraterrestrial Life"Operations at the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array, dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial activity, have been halted after a massive wildfire in Northern California temporarily shut down power..."Posted: 09 August 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: latimes.com Read more at latimes.com > |
Life Found in Oily Goo"Extremely tiny newfound habitats hidden within oil could expand the potential for life in the universe, researchers say..."Posted: 09 August 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: livescience.com Read more at livescience.com > |
NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover Will Hunt for Signs of Alien Life"NASA has announced that the next Mars rover — currently codenamed Mars 2020 — will be outfitted with an array of sophisticated, upgraded scientific instruments that will let it delve deeper and farther than Curiosity, with the hope that it will be able to uncover signs of life on Mars..."Posted: 04 August 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: extremetech.com Read more at extremetech.com > |
Speaking to Aliens Through Music"If humans were to make contact with an intelligent alien species, they would be interested in one thing: our music..."Posted: 04 August 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: mic.com Read more at mic.com > |
Mystery Radio Bursts Baffle Astronomers"Astronomers have a mystery on their hands. Two large radio telescopes, on opposite sides of the planet, have detected very brief, very powerful bursts of radio waves..."Posted: 27 July 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: npr.org Read more at npr.org > |
Searching for Extraterrestrial Polluters"New research by theorists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) showed that we could spot the fingerprints of certain pollutants under ideal conditions. This would offer a new approach in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)..."Posted: 24 July 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: english.farsnews.com Read more at english.farsnews.com > |
Minister: 'NASA is Pointless Because Aliens Are Going to Hell'"Ken Ham, the young-Earth creationist minister who had his ass gently-but-firmly handed to him in a debate with Bill Nye earlier this year, has had it with 'the desperate and fruitless search for extraterrestrial life.' Aliens can't be real, because the Bible says Earth is special. And if they are real, they're all going to hell..."Posted: 22 July 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: gawker.com Read more at gawker.com > |
Fossilized Soils Suggest Life on Mars 'Was Likely'"UO geologist Greg Retallack couldn't quite believe what he was seeing. During two conferences with scientists directly involved with photos and data being relayed from the Martian rover Curiosity, Retallack kept seeing telltale indicators of ancient fossilized soil emerging from deep inside the Gale Crater..."Posted: 18 July 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: around.uoregon.edu Read more at around.uoregon.edu > |
NASA 'Closer Than Ever' to Finding Life Beyond Earth"If you believe there must be extraterrestrial life somewhere in the immensity of the universe, here's some good news: Top NASA scientists agree with you, and at a panel discussion on Monday, they said they were closer than ever to finding out for sure..."Posted: 16 July 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: latimes.com Read more at latimes.com > |
NASA Will Send Your Alien Greetings Into Space"Forty years-ago, before Voyager 1 left our solar system and careened into interstellar space, NASA equipped it with a golden record. But this wasn’t just any golden record; it was filled with images and words from Carl Sagan (and others), a well-known astronomer who hosted Cosmos: A Personal Voyage when it originally aired in the 1980s. So, essentially, it was like a time capsule for whatever alien life found the record..."Posted: 06 July 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: technobuffalo.com Read more at technobuffalo.com > |
SETI Announces Two New Ways to Eavesdrop on Aliens"The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (Seti) programme at University of California Berkeley has come up with two new ways to allegedly contact alien life on other planets..."Posted: 03 July 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: uk.news.yahoo.com Read more at uk.news.yahoo.com > |
China to Search Mars for Aliens and 'Recreate Planet'"China is planning to send a rover to Mars to collect samples and search for alien life within the next six years. Ouyang Ziyuan, also known as the father of Chang'e, said the Mars program will focus on creating space probes on the red planet..."Posted: 28 June 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: english.peopledaily.com.cn Read more at english.peopledaily.com.cn > |
NASA Plans to Colonize Mars"NASA may not be planning to put a human on Mars until the 2030s, but the agency’s top scientist said colonizing the planet is a key part of its agenda – as well as its search for extraterrestrial life..."Posted: 25 June 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: rt.com Read more at rt.com > |
MIT Students Seek to Send Slivers of Life to Mars"Humans have yet to travel to Mars, but students from MIT and other universities announced Monday that they hope to put tens of millions of people from across the globe on the red planet within the next three years..."Posted: 25 June 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: bostonglobe.com Read more at bostonglobe.com > |
NASA to Build Massive Telescope for Alien Hunt"Scientists have announced plans to build a telescope that may give us clues to whether alien life exists on planets millions of miles away..."Posted: 23 June 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com > |
Space Farming Could Soon be a Reality"The concept of space colonisation has long been a dream of astronauts, but now it seems the preparation has begun..."Posted: 17 June 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: ibtimes.co.uk Read more at ibtimes.co.uk > |