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Hydrogen Peroxide Could Feed Life on Europa
According to research by NASA astronomers using the next-generation optics of the 10-meter Keck II telescope, Jupiter's ice-encrusted moon Europa…
In an Isolated, Ice-Covered Antarctic Lake Far Below Freezing, Life is Found
Lake Vida lies within one of Antarctica's cold, arid McMurdo Dry Valleys (Photo: Desert Research Institute) Even inside an almost…
Clay Deposits Don’t Prove Existence of Ancient Martian Lakes
HiRISE image of branching features in the floor of Antoniadi Crater thought to contain clay material. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) In…
Is Triton Hiding an Underground Ocean?
Voyager 2 mosaic of Neptune's largest moon, Triton (NASA) At 1,680 miles (2,700 km) across, the frigid and wrinkled Triton is Neptune’s…
Will Curiosity Look for Life on Mars? Not Exactly…
"Curiosity is not a life detection mission. We're not actually looking for life and we don't have the ability to…
Flashback: 1978 NASA Film Shows Viking Discoveries
In what's a sort of foreshadowing of the upcoming August 5 MSL landing, which is being called "seven minutes of…
Aliens Don’t Want To Eat Us, Says Former SETI Director
[/caption] Alien life probably isn't interested in having us for dinner, enslaving us or laying eggs in our bellies, according…
Rogue Planets Could Drive By And Scoop Up Life
[/caption] Free-floating "rogue" planets may occasionally dip into the inner Solar System, picking up dust containing organic compounds -- a.k.a.…
Alien Life May Not Be So Alien – If It Exists At All
[/caption] Are we too hopeful in our hunt for extraterrestrial life? Regardless of exoplanet counts, super-Earths and Goldilocks zones, the…
Is This Proof of Life on Mars?
[/caption] The Curiosity rover is currently on its way to Mars, scheduled to make a dramatic landing within Gale Crater…