Category: Extraterrestrial life
Planetary Habitability Index: Conjuring life on other planets
| November 26, 2011 | Posted by News under Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, News |
From “Planets’ life-hosting potential ranked” (CBC News, Nov 24, 2011), we learn, Plugging in parameters such as a planet’s mass, radius, and average temperature generates a series of measures in the Earth Similarity Index, which “provides a quick screening tool with which to detect exoplanets most similar to Earth,” said Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at… more
SETI’s Seth Shostak: “Life is not all that special”
| November 23, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Media, News |
Curious words coming from a man whose project of finding intelligent life outside of Earth has been rewarded with 100 per cent failure so far. more
Life on Europa: The dream never dies, and never grows up either
| November 21, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Extraterrestrial life, Media |
In “Europa Plus Water Does Not Equal Life” (November 18, 2011), Creation-Evolution Headlines reports on pop science media coverage around NASA’s recent claim that “Europa, the icy moon of Jupiter, may have large lakes of liquid water under its icy shell, closer to the surface than the deep ocean long believed to exist miles down.”… more
Extraterrestrial life: Wood alcohol one of the keys?
| November 18, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
Earth has life even though our solar system doesn’t meet these people’s criterion, which shows that life must exist around other stars? more
Latest extraterrestrial life theory suggests a habitable planet does not need a moon
| November 14, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
“A study now suggests moonless planets have been dismissed unfairly. ” more
Future astronomer royal Martin Ryle: If it really IS space aliens, don’t tell anyone …
| November 11, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“Stephen Hawking agrees: ‘If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, ” more
Tom Bethell reflects on ET’s no-show, and what it means for popular culture
| November 9, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“Three years ago I tried to visit the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and, on a Wednesday, found the place locked up at midday.” more
Life from Mars to Earth idea to be tested by probe
| November 7, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
One creature to be tested is the animal, tardigrade (water bear), which can survive temperatures approaching absolute zero … more
Extraterrestrial life: UFO fans assail White House, demand disclosure
| November 7, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
It’s nonsense in itself, but what it tells us is worth considering. more
Red dwarfs less alien to life? But none of this adds up to Them being Out There …
| November 7, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
This theory hasn’t changed the status of any known exoplanets, but it’s ingenious. more
Extraterrestrial civilizations: Have we tried looking for their city lights yet?
| November 5, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
“As with other SETI methods, they rely on the assumption that aliens would use Earth-like technologies.” more
Life on Mars: Maybe it was underground?
| November 3, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
“The planet once hosted warm, wet conditions.” more
Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez on habitable planets: “Our universe is a small target indeed.”
| October 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
Perhaps, the less we know, the easier it is to imagine “THEY are out there” – without the undue burden of details. more
“The key materials that life needs are present in a system before planets are born”
| October 22, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
Thousands of oceans of water stuck out in nowhere … more
Space alien news desk: Aliens a bigger threat to Christians than to others?
| October 4, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Extraterrestrial life, News, Religion |
Traditional Christians are less likely than others to credit space alien tales. more
Why the space aliens ain’t out there: “Evolution doesn’t lead to complex life forms: evolution leads to well-adapted life forms” – prof
| September 21, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
“No doubt when he sees that this helps the ID position, he will quickly add the usual disclaimers and denunciations.” more
Famous astrophysicist: Space aliens are hiding – on Earth. Maybe in “junk DNA”
| September 9, 2011 | Posted by News under 'Junk DNA', Cosmology, Extraterrestrial life, News |
Anti-science is everywhere now. Especially in science. That’s why its an election issue. more
Hardy Earth life forms made it to Jupiter’s moons?
| August 24, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
Which our UD author Rob Sheldon has been saying all along more
Jupiter’s moon Europa scene of the latest hunt for life
| August 23, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
Astrobiologists estimate that Earth’s hardiest organisms can survive up to 30,000 years in space. Which means, if we do find life in the solar system, how do we know it is not from Earth? more
Oops, that life-giving water on Mars is … lava!
| August 23, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
But just use your imagination, and you will discover that lava too can host life. more