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Whether there is, or has been, life on Mars remains a matter of great intrigue for scientists, with steps constantly
Read moreWhether there is, or has been, life on Mars remains a matter of great intrigue for scientists, with steps constantly
Read moreAstronomers have typically used something known as the Drake Equation to calculate how many technically advanced alien civilisations there are
Read moreExtremophiles thrive in boiling water, acid, the water core of nuclear reactors and even toxic waste. And life has yet
Read moreThe sequence of radio waves were detected by the Parkes telescope in Australia in both April and May last year
Read moreNASA’s Perseverance Rover is set to land on the Red Planet on February 18, 2021, as part of the US
Read moreMass extinctions are a worryingly frequent event on Earth, with five major catastrophes striking in the last 500 million years
Read moreProxima Centauri is just 4.2 light years away from Earth and is the nearest star to the Sun. Several planets
Read moreALIENS potentially living on distant exoplanet Proxima b may soon learn about life on Earth from artwork delivered by NASA.
Read moreThe regions of spacetime are formed when massive stars collapse at the end of their lives and can continue to
Read moreMelting of thick ice sheets billions of years ago could have made the most habitable region of Mars be several
Read moreChina constructs 500 metre spherical radio telescope ‘FAST’ SETI, searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, listens for radio or laser signals from
Read moreMars is a very cold planet, with an average temperature of -36 degrees Celsius. So while The Red Planet has
Read moreThe discovery of phosphorus and fluorine collected from a comet suggest all important elements needed for life may have been
Read moreSaturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, behind only Jupiter. It is
Read moreFerocious floods on an inconceivable scale are now known to have once filled Gale Crater on the Red Planet’s equator
Read moreIn September, Venus made headlines after scientists discovered large swathes of phosphine in the planet’s atmosphere. By current understandings, phosphine
Read moreVenus’ surface is extremely inhospitable: hot enough to melt lead, sulphuric acid lingers and makes up the best part of
Read moreThe so-called Permian extinction or Great Dying was the biggest cataclysm to affect life on our 4.5 billion-year-old Earth. In
Read moreThe possibility of life on Mars is a subject of huge interest to scientists due to its proximity and similarities
Read moreExperts have discovered a diverse array of microbes in the clay-rich, shallow soil layers of the Atacama Desert in Chile,
Read moreIn more than 60 years of manned and robotic space exploration, scientists are yet to find any evidence of alien
Read moreThe new study of dreams carried out by researchers based in Finland has found that anxiety related to coronavirus features
Read moreA meteorite originating from Mars may well offer tantalising evidence of ancient impact events on Earth’s nearest neighbour. This is
Read moreAnd water is, after all, a key building block of life as we know it. Lead author Steve Bryson, a
Read moreThe spooky season kicked off with a bang on Halloween when residents across nine states witnessed a huge fireball. The
Read moreThe molecule in question is known as cyclopropenylidene, or C3H2, and has only ever been detected in the cold void
Read moreDirect fusion drive is mainly fuelled by deuterium and a helium-3 isotopes. With even the smallest of this potent mix,
Read moreIf life does exist on Venus, NASA may have detected it some 42 years ago. In recent weeks interest in
Read moreRIMFAX or Radar Imager for Mars’ Subsurface Experiment will provide detailed views of the subsurface to depths of about 30ft
Read moreVenus has made major headlines over the last month after scientists discovered large swathes of phosphine in the planet’s atmosphere.
Read moreA report, published online this week, backs up what scientists had already said in 2018 – that Mars’ south pole
Read moreThe question of whether alien life exists has preoccupied philosophers and scientists for millennia, without any significant progress so far
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