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Category: What might life look like elsewhere in the Universe?

What might life look like elsewhere in the Universe? How do we search for life?
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Could we find evidence for life in fool’s gold?

Posted on November 21, 2022January 12, 2023 by Garrett Campion 422 views

Scientists looked for biosignatures in fool's gold from a Mars-like environment . They found small filaments within the rock that may once…

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    How to spot colorful life on icy exoplanets

    Posted on November 7, 2022November 7, 2022 by Aubrey Zerkle 393 views

    In recent decades, astronomers have discovered more than 5000 planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system, with nearly 9000 more…

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      When life detoxifies itself, it leaves behind a helpful sign

      Posted on October 3, 2022October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy 699 views

      Scientists found that a methylated gas produced by life as a waste product of detoxification could serve as a remotely observable sign of…

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        How do we choose which planets to search for life?

        Posted on September 19, 2022October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy 992 views

        Scientists used computer models to determine how likely a planet is to be habitable by its age, size, and distance from its sun.

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          Microbes entombed in ancient salts could help search for life on Mars

          Posted on August 8, 2022October 24, 2022 by Aubrey Zerkle 569 views

          Geologists discovered microbes trapped in 830-million-year-old salt minerals similar to those found on Mars.

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            Future telescopes could search for alien farms

            Posted on April 12, 2022October 24, 2022 by Jacob Haqq Misra 461 views

            Simulations suggest that the light observed from a distant planet around another star might be able to show evidence of ammonia and nitrous…

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              Salt pools can guide our search for life on other planets

              Posted on January 20, 2022October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy 711 views

              Pink, green, and square-shaped microbes can help us understand the limits of life on Earth and guide our search for life outside the planet.

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                Building the molecules of life in the lab

                Posted on January 3, 2022October 24, 2022 by Gina Misra 612 views

                The hyperbranched polymer scaffold could have been the early primitive base for the emergence of life. @t_z_jia @CerberaOdollam…

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                  Smart robots could automatically identify Mars rocks

                  Posted on December 20, 2021October 24, 2022 by Genesis Berlanga 327 views

                  How do you train a computer to identify the type of Mars rocks it sees? #Mars #geology #machinelearning #deeplearning

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                    How can we search for life as we don’t know it?

                    Posted on December 16, 2021October 24, 2022 by Andrea Corpolongo 636 views

                    It's hard to look for signs of life beyond Earth. It's a little easier if we assume that life out there is like Earth life. But what if it…

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