Space Telescope Could Find ET Life within Just a Few Orbits"James Webb Space Telescope can feasibly detect ammonia around six gas dwarf planets after just a few orbits..."Posted: 20 April 2021 - Category: Life in Space - Source: punemirror.indiatimes.com Read more at punemirror.indiatimes.com > |
Study Says ET Hunters Should Search for Artifacts on the Moon"The famous equation used to search for alien civilizations has now inspired a new formula to hunt for alien artifacts within our solar system..."Posted: 15 April 2021 - Category: Life in Space - Source: space.com Read more at space.com > |
Piece of Wright Brothers' First Plane Poised to Fly Again on Mars"When NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on Mars in February, it carried a bit of the Wright brothers' first airplane with it..."Posted: 02 April 2021 - Category: Life in Space - Source: livescience.com Read more at livescience.com > |
Former Astronaut Bill Nelson Nominated as NASA Chief"Bill Nelson, a US senator and one-time astronaut, has been nominated to be the next head of NASA. The 78-year-old is seen as a moderate Democrat, and his nomination by President Joe Biden on Friday drew bipartisan praise..."Posted: 20 March 2021 - Category: Life in Space - Source: bbc.co.uk Read more at bbc.co.uk > |
New Strains of Bacteria 'Unknown to Science' Discovered on ISS"Researchers working with NASA say the discovery of three new strains of bacteria growing on the International Space Station (ISS) could prove helpful in growing crops in space and perhaps on Mars..."Posted: 16 March 2021 - Category: Life in Space - Source: voanews.com Read more at voanews.com > |
Elon Musk 'Will Sell All His Properties' to Finance Mars Colony"As a good businessman, Elon Musk knows that big projects require big investments and sometimes owning the greatest fortune on the planet is not enough..."Posted: 12 January 2021 - Category: Life in Space - Source: entrepreneur.com Read more at entrepreneur.com > |
Space Station Spiders Find Ways to Build Webs without Gravity"Experiments on the International Space Station suggest spiders can weave normal-looking webs in space—they just need a surprising resource..."Posted: 22 December 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: gizmodo.com Read more at gizmodo.com > |
China's Chang'e-5 Mission Leaves Moon's Surface"China has executed the next stage of its Chang'e-5 Moon mission, blasting into orbit samples gathered on the lunar surface..."Posted: 06 December 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: bbc.co.uk Read more at bbc.co.uk > |
New Sky Catalog Reveals Most Likely Sites for Alien Technology"...One enterprising research group has now assembled Exotica, a catalog of strange phenomena in space, which might help us search more efficiently..."Posted: 29 November 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: mindmatters.ai Read more at mindmatters.ai > |
UK to Set Up 'Space Command' with Rocket Launch Capability"The UK is setting up 'RAF Space Command', a wing of the Armed Forces which will be capable of launching Britain's first rocket as early as 2022, the prime minister has announced..."Posted: 21 November 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: itv.com Read more at itv.com > |
Star Trek Actor Joins Effort to Make First Contact with Aliens"Anson Mount's time as Captain Christopher Pike on Star Trek: Discovery was so well-received that he is now set to lead his own series..."Posted: 21 November 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: trekmovie.com Read more at trekmovie.com > |
Study Reveals Water on Mars Existed Even Earlier Than Thought"New evidence that suggests that Mars may have had water much earlier than anticipated. Scientists came to this conclusion after two meteorites..."Posted: 10 November 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: deccanherald.com Read more at deccanherald.com > |
Michigan Meteorite Found to Contain Ancient Organic Compounds"A meteorite that lit up the night sky in the US Midwest in 2018 contains 'pristine' organic compounds that may offer clues to how life formed on Earth, according to researchers (via the Independent)..."Posted: 03 November 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: engadget.com Read more at engadget.com > |
Half of All Sunlike Stars Could Host Earth-size Worlds, Says Study"Here's a good sign for alien hunters: More than 300 million worlds with similar conditions to Earth are scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy..."Posted: 03 November 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: nationalgeographic.com Read more at nationalgeographic.com > |
SpaceX Wants to Impose Its 'Own Legal Regime' on Mars"SpaceX may try impose its 'own legal regime' on Mars and form a 'self-governing,' self-sustaining settlement where Earth laws wouldn't apply..."Posted: 03 November 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: businessinsider.com Read more at businessinsider.com > |
Discovery of Water on the Moon Could Sustain a Lunar Base"Having dropped tantalising hints days ago about an 'exciting new discovery about the Moon', the US space agency has revealed conclusive evidence of water on our only natural satellite..."Posted: 27 October 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: bbc.co.uk Read more at bbc.co.uk > |
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starship to Mars Could Fly in Four Years"SpaceX is almost ready to start building a permanent human settlement on Mars with its massive Starship rocket..."Posted: 20 October 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: space.com Read more at space.com > |
Another Universe Existed Before Ours, claims Nobel Prize Winner"There was an earlier universe before the Big Bang, and evidence for its existence can still be observed in black holes, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist has said..."Posted: 08 October 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: independent.co.uk Read more at independent.co.uk > |
Newly Found 'Salty Lakes' on Mars Could Be Teeming with Life"The team of researchers who discovered a single lake beneath the surface of Mars back in 2018 just published a new paper admitting they were wrong..."Posted: 29 September 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: thenextweb.com Read more at thenextweb.com > |
NASA Outlines Plan for 2024 Moon Landing"The US space agency (NASA) has formally outlined its $28bn (£22bn) plan to return to the Moon by 2024. As part of a programme called Artemis, Nasa will send a man and a woman to the lunar surface in the first landing with humans since 1972..."Posted: 22 September 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: bbc.co.uk Read more at bbc.co.uk > |
Russian Scientists Claim to Find 'Micro-alien' Fossils in Meteorite"...a group of Russian astronomers announce they have clear images of fossils from living microorganisms in a meteorite that came from an exoplanet outside of our solar system..."Posted: 22 September 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: mysteriousuniverse.org Read more at mysteriousuniverse.org > |
NASA Mulls Possible Mission to Venus after Recent Discovery"NASA is considering approving by next April up to two planetary science missions from four proposals under review, including one to Venus..."Posted: 17 September 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: reuters.com Read more at reuters.com > |
Fossil-like Object Spotted in NASA Mars Photo"As the rover was taking photos, it indadvertedly recorded ancient aliens sea life..."Posted: 17 September 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: ufosightingsdaily.com Read more at ufosightingsdaily.com > |
Device Could Help Detect Signs of Extraterrestrial Life"Although Earth is uniquely situated in the solar system to support creatures that call it home, different forms of life could have once existed, or might still exist, on other planets..."Posted: 17 September 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: astrobiology.com Read more at astrobiology.com > |
Scientists Find Possible Evidence of Life in the Clouds of Venus"It's an extraordinary possibility - the idea that living organisms are floating in the clouds of Planet Venus..."Posted: 14 September 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: bbc.co.uk Read more at bbc.co.uk > |
'Petrol-drinking' Aliens Could Be Living on Moons of Saturn"Saturn's moon Titan could be home to alien life forms that drink 'petrol', scientists have claimed..."Posted: 08 September 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: cambridge-news.co.uk Read more at cambridge-news.co.uk > |
Early Martian Life May Have Used Sulfur as an Energy Source"Using an environment on Earth that simulates early Mars conditions, researchers found an abundance of bacteria that get their energy from sulfur-containing molecules..."Posted: 08 September 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: sciworthy.com Read more at sciworthy.com > |
Ancient Meteorite Found in Antarctica Holds 'Key' to Life Mystery"One of the best-preserved meteorites found by a team of Japanese and Belgian researchers is approximately the size of a golf ball can contain material that can be older than our solar system..."Posted: 25 August 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: indianexpress.com Read more at indianexpress.com > |
Dwarf Planet Ceres Has Ocean of Salt Water Beneath Its Surface"The dwarf planet Ceres is a 'water-rich' world that holds large reservoirs of sea water beneath its surface, according to data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft..."Posted: 11 August 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: theprint.in Read more at theprint.in > |
Scientists Use Moon as Mirror in Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life"In the quest to discover life beyond Earth, scientists are harnessing a very large and proximate tool—the moon..."Posted: 11 August 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: smithsonianmag.com Read more at smithsonianmag.com > |
Perseverance Mars Rover Launches to Detect Life on Red Planet"The US space agency's Perseverance robot has left Earth on a mission to try to detect life on Mars. The one-tonne, six-wheeled rover was launched out of Florida by an Atlas rocket on a path to intercept the Red Planet in February next year..."Posted: 30 July 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: bbc.co.uk Read more at bbc.co.uk > |
NASA Joins with SETI to Prevent ET Contamination of Earth"Nasa has asked the Seti Institute to ensure alien life does not contaminate Earth. The Seti, which stands for 'search for extraterrestrial intelligence', Institute is primarily focused on discovering life elsewhere in the universe..."Posted: 14 July 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: independent.co.uk Read more at independent.co.uk > |
Three International Spacecraft Set to Head to Mars within Weeks"Mars, often referred to as the Red Planet, is about to be invaded by three countries — the United States, China and the United Arab Emirates..."Posted: 14 July 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: moneycontrol.com Read more at moneycontrol.com > |
NASA Developing 'Steam-powered Robot' to Explore Europa"NASA's plans to explore the ice moons of the Solar System are getting more detail as the space agency is developing a robot that would use steam to power itself in deep space..."Posted: 30 June 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: foxnews.com Read more at foxnews.com > |
'Lunar Loo Challenge' Asks Innovators to Design Next Space Toilet"Putting the first woman and next man on the moon in anticipation of manned journeys to Mars has its challenges. Among many other aspects there's spacecraft design..."Posted: 30 June 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: laboratoryequipment.com Read more at laboratoryequipment.com > |
Did Ancient Asteroids Bring the Building Blocks of Life to Earth?"A new study has found the emergence of amino acids, which serve as the building blocks of proteins and life, on impact sites of ancient asteroids in the ocean..."Posted: 09 June 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: techtimes.com Read more at techtimes.com > |
China's FAST Telescope Will Search for ET Life in September"Science and Technology Daily through China TechCity reported that China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) would begin its quest to explore outer space for aliens signals in September..."Posted: 03 June 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: sciencetimes.com Read more at sciencetimes.com > |
NASA Astronauts Keep Quiet on SpaceX Capsule Name"The NASA astronauts set out to launch next week aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule have named their vehicle. But, alas, we'll have to wait til launch day for the big reveal..."Posted: 25 May 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: space.com Read more at space.com > |
Japan Launches New Unit to Step up Defence in Outer Space"Japan launched its new space defence unit Monday to monitor and counter threats to the country's satellites. The Space Operations Squadron, part of Japan's Air Self-Defence Force..."Posted: 19 May 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: ctvnews.ca Read more at ctvnews.ca > |
US Administration Drafts Pact for Mining on the Moon"The Trump administration is drafting a legal blueprint for mining on the moon under a new US-sponsored international agreement called the Artemis Accords, according to people familiar with the proposed pact..."Posted: 12 May 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: theguardian.com Read more at theguardian.com > |
NASA Starts Final Preparations for Mars 2020 Rover Launch"Engineers working on NASA’s Mars Rover mission at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida started placing the rover and the space components into the configuration as there are 68 days left for a mission to the red planet..."Posted: 12 May 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: universalnews.org Read more at universalnews.org > |
Odd 'Life-like' Rock Spotted on Mars"I found this strange sculpture on Mars today, at least I think its a sculpture, it very well could be alive. But photos only tell us a little bit about things on Mars, we need video to verify movement..."Posted: 12 May 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: etdatabase.com Read more at etdatabase.com > |
Scientists Propose Fleet of Flying Nanocardboard Robots on Mars"Light-propelled nanocardboard robots laden with sensors, flitting in the Martian atmosphere, could one day help us better understand the Red Planet..."Posted: 23 April 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: theregister.co.uk Read more at theregister.co.uk > |
Apollo 13: Enhanced Images Reveal Life on Stricken Spacecraft"Image enhancement techniques have been used to reveal life aboard Nasa's stricken Apollo 13 spacecraft in unprecedented detail..."Posted: 13 April 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: bbc.co.uk Read more at bbc.co.uk > |
Trump Order Encourages US to Mine the Moon"The world may be racked by the coronavirus, but Donald Trump has less earthly concerns on his mind, too, after signing an executive order encouraging the US to mine the moon for minerals..."Posted: 10 April 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: theguardian.com Read more at theguardian.com > |
Microbes Living in Deep Sea Rocks Spawn Hope for Life on Mars"Despite their microscopic size and simplistic cells, bacteria are some of the hardiest life forms around..."Posted: 10 April 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: smithsonianmag.com Read more at smithsonianmag.com > |
US Space Force's Orbital 'Space Fence' System Is Now Operational"The U.S. Space Force is a relatively young arm of the U.S. armed forces, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t already operating assets. The USSF announced late last week that its Space Fence radar system is now officially operational..."Posted: 02 April 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: techcrunch.com Read more at techcrunch.com > |
'Alien Building' Discovered on Asteroid Eros?"A UFO expert claimed to have spotted an alien base on the second-largest known near-Earth asteroid. According to the expert, NASA may not have realized that it photographed an alien structure on the massive space rock..."Posted: 02 April 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: ibtimes.com Read more at ibtimes.com > |
Researchers Find First Ever Extraterrestrial Protein in Meteorite"A research team led by Harvard University scientist Julie McGeoch has found a never-before-seen protein inside a meteorite called Acfer 086..."Posted: 28 March 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: sci-news.com Read more at sci-news.com > |
ExoMars Rover Mission Delayed Until 2022"Europe and Russia have decided to postpone their Mars rover mission. The ExoMars 'Rosalind Franklin' vehicle was due to launch to the Red Planet in July/August but engineers aren't able to get the vehicle ready in time..."Posted: 14 March 2020 - Category: Life in Space - Source: bbc.co.uk Read more at bbc.co.uk > |