Researchers want to ascertain the public’s views on how humanity should respond to first contact with aliens. The question of whether we are alone in … Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/328766/uk-seti-launches-largest-alien-contact-survey…
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Alien Life Might ‘Think’ More Like an Octopus Than a Human
When an octopus uses its arms, it’s a no-brainer. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65835-octopus-brains-in-arms-aliens.html
Today in science: Tunguska explosion
We celebrate Asteroid Day on June 30 because it’s the anniversary of a 1908 explosion over Siberia that killed reindeer and flattened trees. Here’s the latest on what we know. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/what-is-the-tunguska-explosion…
The ‘Lost City’ of Atlantis Massif Could Reveal How Life Survives on Dark, Alien Water Worlds
Simple chemical reactions on hydrothermal vents could power life on dark worlds like Saturn’s world, Enceladus. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65824-lost-city-of-microbes-on-atlantis-massif.html
When CubeSats meet an asteroid
SA’s Hera mission for planetary defense, being designed to survey the smallest asteroid ever explored, is really three spacecraft in one. The main mothership will carry two briefcase-sized CubeSats, which will touch down on the target body. A French team has been investigating what might happen at that initial instant of alien contact. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-cubesats-asteroid.html…
Planet in triple-star system may be our best chance to find alien life
An exoplanet 22.5 light years away that orbits in a system with three stars has the perfect conditions for us to search its atmosphere for signs of alien life Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2208010-planet-in-triple-star-system-may-be-our-best-chance-to-find-alien-life/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
NASA’s New Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope Has Spotted Its Tiniest Alien World Yet
NASA’s new exoplanet-hunting telescope has discovered its smallest planet yet: a world somewhere between the sizes of Earth and its smaller sister, Mars. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65828-tiny-exoplanet.html
Life on Icy Alien Worlds May Resemble Creatures Under Submerged Hawaiian Volcano
Certain conditions that nurture life deep underwater may also be found elsewhere in the solar system. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65800-underwater-volcano-life-enceladus.html
On Alien Worlds, Extraterrestrials Could Be Spewing a Toxic, Smelly Gas. That’s How We Could Find Them.
E.T. may use the gas for cellular communication. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65791-alien-life-may-spew-toxic-gas.html
‘Bathtub rings’ around Titan’s lakes might be made of alien crystals
The frigid lakeshores of Saturn’s moon Titan might be encrusted with strange, unearthly minerals, according to new research being presented here. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-bathtub-titan-lakes-alien-crystals.html…