An illustration of an Earth-like planet being watched over by a Jupiter-like giant planet with a small sun in the distance. Scientists have created a first-of-its-kind catalog of planets outside the solar system that exhibit similar sizes to Earth and are watched over by a “big sibling,” Jupiter-like world. Known […]
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BARELY a month goes by these days without the detection of a tantalising “sign of life” in an alien atmosphere. With the James Webb Space Telescope’s unmatched ability to probe the chemistry of distant worlds – and so many promising exoplanets to set our sights on – today’s astronomers are […]
The icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn may hold the key to the survival of alien life, according to scientists at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. Scientists have released a research paper suggesting that the so-called “strike-slip faults” on the moons of Ganymede (which rotates around Jupiter) and Titan […]
Is biological life common in the universe, or should we be looking for artificial, robotic intelligence in the search for alien life? An increasing number of scientists suspect that if we ever do make contact with alien life, we will be communicating with a computer. This thinking revolves around an […]
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken a closer look at a volatile star at the heart of a system of seven potentially Earth-like worlds, some of which might be able to support life as we know it. The powerful space telescope studied four flares erupting from the star […]
On Earth, massive amounts of methane are trapped within white, cage-like chemical structures. These deposits are primarily found in permanently frozen polar regions as well as on the seafloor, but the key here is that they’re not specific to our planet. Similar reservoirs are known to exist on bodies across […]
Self-sustaining chemical reactions that could support biology radically different from life as we know it might exist on many different planets using a variety of elements beyond the carbon upon which Earth’s life is based, a new study finds. On Earth, life is based on organic compounds. These molecules are […]
An investigation by Nasa into hundreds of reports of UFO sightings has found no evidence of alien life. But US space agency administrator Bill Nelson said it was not known what the unexplained objects were. New science techniques and artificial intelligence were needed to better understand the “unidentified anomalous phenomena”, […]