Category: Extraterrestrial life
Shocka! No intelligent life signal from Gliese 581
| June 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“Australian astronomers used ‘very long baseline interferometry’” more
Remember the arsenic eating bacteria? Paper in Science refutes claim
| June 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
“It’s a fairly short paper but there are many observations in it which quite directly contradict the earlier results.” more
Harsh reality files: In other space travel news today …
| June 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
… “never” is the new “regular.” more
Astrobiologist says “undergoes Darwinian evolution” doesn’t really make sense as definition for life
| May 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“We pretend that makes sense, but if you look it makes no sense at all.” more
NASA inundated by ideas for exploring Mars.
| May 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
There better be a good idea in there somewhere, because NASA is supposed to get astronauts near Mars by 2030 more
Carbon from Mars not biological, study says
| May 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“A new paper led by Carnegie’s Andrew Steele provides strong evidence that this carbon did originate on Mars, although it is not biological.” more
If you were a space alien, how would you answer alien hunter Seth Shostak’s two questions?
| May 19, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“Do you have music and do you have religion?” more
Origin of life researcher: Alien life forms will more likely be constructed in laboratory than found in space?
| May 9, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
If this catches on, it will be a new mood in search-for-life studies, and a more realistic one, compared to the constant faux news … more
Dave Coppedge is back to keeping score on planet theories
| April 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“Mars: The dry-Marsers scored more points over the wet-Marsers this month. ” more
Fibonacci series demonstrates intelligence, but only if …
| April 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
… we can attribute it to a space alien? more
Mars: Well, we’ve heard the case for life around volcanic glass, now let’s hear it for craters …
| April 17, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
If we don’t know how life got started in the first place, we have no obvious reason to believe that Mars’ craters are hiding life. more
Mars: Through a glass darkly…
| April 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
Apparently, the volcanic glass patches were “once thought to be canals or vegetation.” more
Extraterrestrial life was manufactured here?
| April 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
Seriously, Hugh Ross at Reasons to Believe has been saying this for years: There’s life out on them thar rocks, but it was manufactured here. more
The dream lives: Complexity of samples shows Viking found life on Mars in 1976?
| April 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“They say the high degree of order is more characteristic of biological, rather than purely physical, processes.” more
An anthropologist looks at SETI the way SETI fans speculate about space aliens …
| April 7, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
Only, in this case, there are live subjects. more
Has the quest for life on Mars sunk to a “new low”: The pits?
| April 7, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
” … the interior of such lava tubes could provide a safe haven for microbial life — especially if groundwater had found its way inside at some point.” more
Tens of billions of planets in the galaxy might have water?
| March 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, News |
It may be a bit too soon to start selling real estate. They found nine super-Earths in a survey of 102 stars. But so far, super-Earths have been disappointing. more
In the days when Mars had life, the 1970s …
| March 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
Lichens, maybe? more
European space agency’s ExoMars project probably doomed too
| March 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
Atheism’s influence on cosmology has been grave. more
Sudden inspiration: Life on Mars more testable than life on Earth!
| March 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
The subtle message here is obviously that the science community gets better mileage out of Mars exploration than out of origin of life research. In principle, that’s likely true … more