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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 ![]() |
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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 ![]() |
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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 ![]() |
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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 ![]() |
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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 ![]() |
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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 ![]() |
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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 ![]() |
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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 ![]() |
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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 ![]() |
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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 ![]() |
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Could Pluto's Moon Harbour Alien Life?"Pluto's giant moon Charon could be hiding a once warm ocean under the surface, Nasa has claimed. Researchers analysing cracks on the surface of the frozen moon say it points to the existence of strong, warm, tidal oceans beneath..."Posted: 15 June 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: dailymail.co.uk ![]() |
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What Does Science Say About Alien Life?"Too often those who study detailed scientific studies dismiss claims for alien life. So here is a roundup of some hard facts for both believers and skeptics..."Posted: 12 June 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: digitaljournal.com ![]() |
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NASA Suggests Humans Could Be on Mars by 2035"At the European Lunar Symposium held at the Museum earlier this month, NASA officials revealed that the Moon could be used as a practice ground for sending humans to Mars within 20 years..."Posted: 29 May 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: phys.org ![]() |
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US Gov. Held More Hearings About Space than Climate Change"...Lawmakers, however, are far more concerned about the question of extraterrestrial life than about the primary scientific topic of the day: climate change..."Posted: 23 May 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: sciencerecorder.com ![]() |
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The Earthlings Already Sent to Mars"Dead stowaways landed on Mars in August 2012. That’s for certain. However, due to their diminutive size -- they were microbes -- it was easy to miss them as NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover touched down..."Posted: 22 May 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: bloombergview.com ![]() |
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NASA Names Martian Ridge After Prof. Colin Pillinger"Mars mission pioneer Colin Pillinger has had a mountain feature on the Red Planet named after him by NASA scientists..."Posted: 20 May 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: cambridge-news.co.uk ![]() |
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FEATURED ARTICLE: Do These NASA Photos Prove the Existence of Ancient Life on Mars?"At Unearthly News we decided to examine the latest NASA Curiosity images to see what evidence we could find of ancient life on Mars - and you may be amazed by the results..."Posted: 11 May 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: unearthlynews.com Read more at unearthlynews.com > |
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Plant Life Expected to Be on Mars By the Year 2021"It may not be long before we see plant life on Mars. NASA’s researchers have proposed an experiment that would send plant seeds up to Mars in a rover with the hopes they will grow in the planet’s atmosphere. .."Posted: 10 May 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: ecorazzi.com ![]() |
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Warheads to be Used to Find Evidence of Life on Mars"Although the great minds at NASA has long hypothesized the possibility of the evidence of life on Mars that they have been searching for, may very much likely be hiding underneath the planet’s subsurface ice, but digging for this much needed evidence simply isn’t an option for NASA as of now..."Posted: 10 May 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: techsonia.com ![]() |
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Humans 'Not Ready' To Meet Aliens, Study Suggests"Humans are not yet ready to make contact with intelligent aliens, a study suggests. Space psychologist Professor Gabriel de la Torre came to the conclusion after questioning 116 American, Italian and Spanish university students..."Posted: 09 May 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: huffingtonpost.co.uk ![]() |
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'Wow!' Signal Might Have Been Interference, Says Astronomer"The controversial and unexplained Wow! Signal from decades ago may have been interference, says a top radio astronomer..."Posted: 23 April 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: news24.com ![]() |
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Extraterrestrial Vitamins: Scientists Find B3 on Meteorites"Scientists have confirmed that Vitamin B3, or Niacin, can actually be produced in space. Niacin is one of the essential nutrients for life and researchers have successfully extracted the vitamin from sample meteorites..."Posted: 21 April 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: techtimes.com ![]() |
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Bright Lights on Mars Photos Spark Alien Intrigue"Bright spots that look like a beacon flashing from a distant Martian hillside are attracting attention from the UFO crowd — but are they real or just photographic glitches?.."Posted: 09 April 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: nbcnews.com ![]() |
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Why There's No Place Like Home"...The scroll my father, Frank Drake, is holding is more than a half-century old. It’s part of the data he collected during an experiment known as Project Ozma. Named after a character in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, the project was the first scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligent life..."Posted: 10 March 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: phenomena.nationalgeographic.com ![]() |
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New Technique Will Use Hubble's Successor to Find Alien Life"The search for life on other planets is tough, because no matter how many alien worlds we discover (and NASA has recently discovered a whole bunch), it's hard to know just which ones might have little extraterrestrial organisms skittering around. Scientists have come up with a new method for spotting life-supporting planets, and all they need is Hubble’s successor..."Posted: 10 March 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: geekosystem.com ![]() |
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The 4 Best Places for Life in Our Solar System"Are we alone? It’s the question that has plagued philosophers, astronomers — maybe even yourself — since we first began to understand that there were other worlds beyond our own in the universe..."Posted: 09 March 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: globalnews.ca ![]() |
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UK Announces Launch of 'Plato Mission' to Find ET"It has been said that the existence of alien life elsewhere in our universe would be extraordinary – as would the alternative possibility, that we are quite alone. Now science minister David Willetts has announced the UK government is to spend £25m on a space probe which will attempt to discover the truth about extra-terrestrial life..."Posted: 09 March 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: ibtimes.co.uk ![]() |
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Mars Sample-Return Mission Could Launch in 2022"Scientists have blueprinted a low-cost Mars sample-return mission that would use a souped-up Dragon capsule from the private spacefligth company SpaceX and the firm's planned Falcon Heavy rocket to get to the Red Planet by the early 2020s..."Posted: 09 March 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: space.com ![]() |
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NASA Plans Mission to Search for Life on Europa"We've yet to find definitive evidence of life on Mars but for Nasa the search is continuing further afield. In its latest budget request the US space agency set aside funds to explore a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, often described as one of the solar system's best bets for hosting alien life..."Posted: 05 March 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com ![]() |
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Is Ancient Frozen Giant Virus an Alien Lifeform?"Viruses come in all sizes and shapes, but a new organism found in Siberia is the largest one ever discovered..."Posted: 05 March 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: techtimes.com ![]() |
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Mars One to Use New 'People's Map of Mars'"The first people to set foot on Mars may navigate around the Red Planet using a map drawn up with the help of the masses here on Earth..."Posted: 03 March 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: space.com ![]() |
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Atmospheric Bacteria Could Be Extraterrestrial"Noted astrophysicist Dr Jayant Narlikar has said that the world might be closer to finding answer to the question as to whether the living organisms are found elsewhere in the universe..."Posted: 02 March 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: newindianexpress.com ![]() |
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More Planets Means More Chance of Extraterrestrial Life"The announcement by Nasa that it has added an extra 715 new planets to the 1,000 or so that were already known to exist beyond the solar system is a significant step..."Posted: 01 March 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: independent.co.uk ![]() |
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Meteorite 'Fossils' Revive Debate Over Life on Mars"Eighteen years after a Martian meteorite sparked a debate over alien-looking 'nanofossils,' researchers are reporting that different structures inside an even bigger space rock suggest biological processes might have been at work on the Red Planet hundreds of millions of years ago..."Posted: 27 February 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: nbcnews.com ![]() |
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Finding Aliens Through Pollution"Scientists will soon be able to look for life on other planets by checking out their pollution levels. This will be possible by the launch of a £1 billion European space telescope in 2024..."Posted: 26 February 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: examiner.co.uk ![]() |
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Mars One Responds to Fatwa Against Living on Mars"Mars One, a Dutch company that is planning to create a permanent human settlement on the planet Mars in 2023, has responded to criticisms in a religious ruling offered by Muslim scholars forbidding Muslims from participating in the project..."Posted: 25 February 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: worldbulletin.net ![]() |
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SETI at the Particle Level"...If SETI is giving us no evidence of extraterrestrials, maybe it's because we're looking on too large a scale. What if, in other words, truly advanced intelligence, having long ago taken to non-biological form, finds ways to maximize technology on the level of the very small?..."Posted: 23 February 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: centauri-dreams.org ![]() |
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Did NASA Destroy Evidence of Life on Mars?"...Opportunity rover in 2004 took an image of a fascinating structure on Mars that shows structural features that are consistent with organisms on Earth known as crinoids ... Crinoids are echinoderms, like starfish ... so these are animals!..."Posted: 20 February 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: openminds.tv ![]() |
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Muslim Scholars Issue Fatwa Against Living on Mars"The General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment in the UAE has issued an fatwa (Islamic ruling) prohibiting Muslims from volunteering to live the rest of their lives on Mars..."Posted: 20 February 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: worldbulletin.net ![]() |
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Was Extraterrestrial Life Discovered 18 Years Ago?"Scientists from Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence have been looking for alien civilizations for decades, but now claim that E.T. (Extra-Terrestrial life form) has been detected, although it is not how people expected..."Posted: 16 February 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: guardianlv.com ![]() |
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Life on Mars Might Not Be a Pipe Dream"Never mind putting a man on the moon, three university researchers are on a mission to persuade the world we should be living life on Mars..."Posted: 16 February 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: westerndailypress.co.uk ![]() |
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How Would Humanity Change if We Knew Aliens Existed?"We have yet to discover any signs of an extraterrestrial civilization — a prospect that could quite literally change overnight. Should that happen, our sense of ourselves and our place in the cosmos would forever be shaken. It could even change the course of human history. Or would it?.."Posted: 15 February 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: io9.com ![]() |
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How We Might Make Alien Discoveries Within Twenty Years"Ever since we started to appreciate the awesome scale of our galaxy and the universe around us, we have pondered the question "are we alone in the universe?" From a scientific perspective, the answer so far is yes, we are alone. There is simply no scientific evidence to show that life exists anywhere expect on Earth, and especially no evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence..."Posted: 13 February 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: catholic.org ![]() |
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Intelligent Alien Life Could Be Found by 2040"...By 2040 or so, astronomers will have scanned enough star systems to give themselves a great shot of discovering alien-produced electromagnetic signals, said Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View..."Posted: 10 February 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: space.com ![]() |
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Life on Mars: Dirty With Broken Toilets"When it comes to life on Mars flooding toilets, a lack of showers and a endless diet of dried food might not be the first problems that spring to mind. But these are everyday difficulties a future mission to the Red Planet could face, according to a research project involving two students from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow..."Posted: 09 February 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: heraldscotland.com ![]() |
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Astrobiologist will Present Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life"Controversial astrobiologist Richard Hoover and his colleagues at the Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham have been making worldwide headlines for years due to their claims that scientist have already obtained valid evidence of extraterrestrial life. Hoover will be presenting some of this evidence at the International UFO Congress at the Fort McDowell Radisson in Fountain Hills, Arizona on Thursday, February 13..."Posted: 05 February 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: openminds.tv ![]() |
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NASA Scientists Who Said They Found Alien Life"...Several NASA astrobiologists and other researchers have said they found compelling evidence of alien life. Here’s a look at five studies..."Posted: 05 February 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: theepochtimes.com ![]() |
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We’re Looking for Life in All the Wrong Places"Scientists have long focused their search for extraterrestrial life on Earth-like planets – but that may be a mistake, according to a McMaster researcher..."Posted: 03 February 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: laboratoryequipment.com ![]() |
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Did Alien Life Evolve Just After the Big Bang?"Earthlings may be extreme latecomers to a universe full of life, with alien microbes possibly teeming on exoplanets beginning just 15 million years after the Big Bang, new research suggests..."Posted: 01 February 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: space.com ![]() |
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Life on Mars - Hidden in Plain Sight?"We have learnt so much about the geology of other planets. Our spacecraft have discovered ancient oceans and rivers on Mars, and have found possible habitats for life. But we haven't discovered this life itself, and we know nothing at all about extraterrestrial biology. Why is life so hard to spot? Is it there at all, and if so, why is it hidden from view, and how can we find it?..."Posted: 30 January 2014 - Category: Life in Space - Source: science20.com ![]() |