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No, Octopuses Don't Come From Outer Space
May 21, 2018 | ArticleScientists are skeptical of a new paper that suggests frozen octopus eggs rode a meteor to Earth 540 million years ago.
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Why Formamide May Have Been Early Life's Alternative to Water
May 19, 2018 | ArticleWater is the basis for life as we know it, but did life's building blocks form without it?
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Ultraviolet Radiation from Low-Mass Stars Could Render Planets Uninhabitable
May 18, 2018 | ArticleLow-mass stars are currently the most promising targets when searching for potentially habitable planets, but new research has revealed that some of these stars produce significant amounts of ultraviolet (UV) radiation throughout their lifetimes.
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Aliens May Well Exist in a Parallel Universe, New Studies Find
May 15, 2018 | ArticleCould alien life be hiding in the multiverse? New studies say, "sure!"
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NASA Grants Fund 5-Year Missions to Help Seek Out Alien Life
May 14, 2018 | ArticleThe NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) has awarded five-year grants to three research teams who will hunt for life in the universe.
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A 'Mars on Earth' Helps Scientists with Their Search for Alien Life (Video)
May 14, 2018 | ArticleScientists are using alien environments on Earth to improve our abilities to search for life on Mars.
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Sci-Fi Monsters: We Love Them, But Could We Really Find Them?
May 13, 2018 | ArticleSome aliens in science fiction are truly the stuff of nightmares. The torso-bursting monsters of "Alien" are one example of things we hope don't exist. But why are we so fascinated with alien monsters, and what would alien life really look like?
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Seasonal Changes in Exoplanet's Atmosphere Could Signal Alien Life
May 12, 2018 | ArticleScientists are exploring how atmospheric seasons could signal the presence of extraterrestrial life.
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Breakthrough Listen Launches New Search for E.T. Across Millions of Stars
May 08, 2018 | ArticleNew digital instruments at the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope site will allow scientists to survey larger areas of the Milky Way and better distinguish signals of interest in an attempt to identify intelligent extraterrestrial life.
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The Search for Life on Mars Could Get a Water-Enhanced Boost
May 07, 2018 | ArticleA new experiment designed to detect amino acids on Mars, in spite of the reactive perchlorate in the Martian soil that typically breaks organic compounds down, could fly on a future mission to Mars to help in the search for life there.
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