alien life
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Sure, Alien Life Could Exist on Mars, but Can a Rover Find It?
Robotic rovers are currently exploring the surface of Mars. Part of a rover’s mission is to survey the planet for signs of life. There might be nothing to find – but what if there is, and the rovers just can’t “see” it? New research published today in Nature Communications suggests the rovers’ current equipment might…
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What Would Aliens Be Like?
We don’t know whether there are any aliens or not. But there are so many planets in the universe ” some say more planets than all the grains of sand on Earth ” that many scientists think it’s worth looking.
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Will NASA Find Life On Titan?
Have you ever wondered why NASA is sending a spacecraft to one of Saturn’s moons and what it might find there? This beautiful comic may help.
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A New NASA-Led Project Means The Search For Aliens Is Heating Up
To date, scientists have catalogued more than 3500 exoplanets, some of which may even be capable of fostering life. But we simply don’t know. The ability to detect life on distant worlds still eludes us, but a new project coordinated by NASA now takes us a significant step closer to achieving that goal.