Earth’s nearest neighbours have turned into uninhabitable hellholes. Understanding their transformation will teach us which rocky exoplanets might be fit for life Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232350-900-how-mercury-and-venus-can-guide-our-hunt-for-alien-life-on-exoplanets/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Voracious Black Holes Could Feed Alien Life with Radiation Blitzes
Black holes are engines of destruction on a cosmic scale, but they may also be the bringers of life. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65743-black-holes-could-feed-alien-life.html
Voracious Black Holes Could Feed Alien Life on Rogue Worlds
Black holes are engines of destruction on a cosmic scale, but they may also be the bringers of life. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65743-black-holes-could-feed-alien-life.html
Could a superflare happen on our sun?
New research suggests that superflares – massive bursts of energy from a star’s surface – can happen on stars like our sun. What might that mean for us on Earth? Source: https://earthsky.org/space/could-superflare-happen-on-sun…
NASA Wants to Build a ‘Starshade’ to Hunt Alien Planets
Such a mission would have to keep two spacecraft, separated by thousands of miles, aligned within 3 feet of each other. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65735-starshade-alien-planets.html
The Search for Habitable Alien Worlds in Earth’s Backyard Heats Up
A new instrument designed to find potentially habitable alien worlds in the nearest star system to our own sun just revved up. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65712-search-for-habitable-alien-worlds.html
Will evidence for life on Mars look like fettuccine pasta?
The search for life on Mars usually involves looking for past or present microbes, invisible to the eye. Scientists at University of Illinois suggest searching instead for a type of rock formation known on Earth to be created by microbes. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/fettuccine-rocks-mars-astrobiology-sulfuri-bacteria-geology-space…
Alien Life Could Be Hiding Out on Far Fewer Planets Than We Thought
Where is complex alien life hanging out in the universe? Likely not on planets stewing in toxic gases, according to a new study that dramatically reduces the number of worlds where scientists will have the best luck finding ET. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65685-where-complex-alien-life-exists.html
Is belief in alien life a whole new religion ?
In the United States, there are almost as many believers in intelligent alien life as there are believers in God. Professor Diana Pasulka of the Unive… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/328251/is-belief-in-alien-life-a-whole-new-religion…
An Alien Star Was Just Caught Shooting an Enormous Plasma Blast into Space
This observation, the first ever of an alien coronal mass ejection, reveals new details about how stars other than our sun behave. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65622-star-blast-flare-sun.html