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Go to Sea with Astrobiologists Visiting Hawaii to Learn How to Look for Alien Life
August 28, 2018 | ArticleAstrobiologists want to snorkel in the hidden oceans of icy moons like Europa and Enceladus — but research trips there are awfully difficult to coordinate. So, as a consolation prize, they're going to Hawaii.
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E.T., Phone Earth? How Neutron-Star Crashes Could Help Aliens Call Us
August 27, 2018 | ArticleThe first-ever observations of merging binary stars stunned the astronomy community last year, but not quite as much as the first-ever signal from extraterrestrial life might someday stun the world.
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Glowing NASA Map Shows Huge Dust Clouds Swirling Across Earth
August 25, 2018 | ArticleWe live our whole lives wandering from one cloud of dust to the next. A new NASA image lets you see that for yourself.
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Why We Can't Depend on Robots to Find Life on Mars
August 22, 2018 | ArticleA Senate subcommittee asked for reasons to support sending humans to Mars, and, boy, did they get one from Ellen Stofan, formerly NASA's chief scientist.
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Don't Ignore Ethical Aspects of Planetary Protection, Scientists Say
August 21, 2018 | ArticleMost scientific discussions about planetary protection focus on how contaminating another world could complicate the search for alien life. But the ethics of potentially altering an extraterrestrial ecosystem shouldn't be ignored.
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We Need to Keep Looking for Aliens, Scientists Tell Senators
August 02, 2018 | ArticleFour scientists made the case yesterday (Aug. 1) to a panel of senators that they should fund NASA's search for life beyond Earth.
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Life Needs Sunlight — and That Could Change Where We Look for Aliens
August 01, 2018 | ArticleWith every new exoplanet discovered, the same question arises: Could this world host life? That capability requires so much more than liquid water.
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9 Strange, Scientific Excuses for Why Humans Haven't Found Aliens Yet
July 31, 2018 | CountdownWhere are all the aliens? Scientists have some … unusual theories.
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Europa Lander May Not Have to Dig Deep to Find Signs of Life
July 23, 2018 | ArticleIf signs of life exist on Jupiter's icy moon Europa, they might not be as hard to find as scientists had thought, a new study reports.
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Where to Search for Signs of Life on Titan
July 21, 2018 | ArticleNew findings suggest that large craters are the prime locations in which to find the building blocks of life on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
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