Using the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Telescope, a team of astronomers was recently able to determine that a nearby star called Beta Pictoris, located around 63 light-years away from Earth, is surrounded by a thick cloud of comets.
The stellar object is very young, and it is still surrounded b... |
4 October 2012
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A group of experts from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, recently conducted a study meant to assess the conditions required for organic molecules to enter a prebiotic states. Such researches could reveal more about how life began here on Earth.
A prebiotic state means that organic m... |
19 September 2012
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Analyses conducted on some of Earth's most resilient organisms suggest that a theory called panspermia – which holds that life can spread between planets, star systems and galaxies by hitching rides aboard asteroids and other space rocks – may be true after all. When it was first proposed, most of t... |
26 June 2012
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Italian scientists from the Sapienza University in Rome propose that life developed a lot sooner in the Universe than we give it credit for. Currently, most scientists believe that the earliest lifeforms appeared here on Earth, but the new idea proposes that proto-life already existed in the Cosmos.
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3 October 2011
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According to the results of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that a class of space rocks called carbonaceous meteorites is able to carry organic compounds associated with cellular respiration through the void of space. A team of NASA experts recently identified such molecules in a space rock.What the e... |
24 August 2011
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A team of experts recently determined that some of the basic building blocks of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the basic building blocks of life, may have originated in meteorites that were produced in space. This finding has tremendous implications for theories on the origins of life here on Earth.The research lends a... |
9 August 2011
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The conclusions of a new scientific study provide the first evidence that microbes can indeed survive being blasted into space, traveling for millions of years, reentering an atmosphere, and then making their way to the surface of an alien body. Until now, experts have hypothesized that this is possible, but investig... |
7 July 2011
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Astrobiologists now believe that life may in fact be able to survive, or even thrive, in a much wider array of environments than previously thought. The conclusion was drawn from a study that shows microbes to be largely unaffected by the gravitational forces that act upon them. In other words, it would appear that t... |
26 April 2011
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A new twist in an established theory argues that all life on Earth may have developed from the remains of dead alien viruses, that arrived here on comets and other space impactors. This is a new form to the old idea of panspermia, which says that life did not originally develop here. Some experts now believe that vir... |
10 November 2010
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