It’s called the Great Silence. When we look into the heavens with the specific intent of detecting other alien life, whether intelligent or just a biosignature, we so far see almost nothing. There are...
[narrator] February 25, 2014. Five hundred and fifty-four solar days after the Mars Curiosity rover touched down, it beams its latest high-resolution panoramic photographs of the Mars landscape to Earth. Upon inspection, amateur archaeologists...
Was Venus once a tropical oasis?Did it once have LIFE?Well, if it did, it doesn’t any more becauseit’s a HELLHOLE. Hello fellow terrestrial lifeforms!Trace here for DNews and I want you to considerVenus. Apparently...
– Deep within the acid clouds above Venus,astronomers have detected something new,a gas that could be a sign of life. The gas is phosphine, a toxic moleculewith an odor of garlic and dead fish....
CLARA SOUSA-SILVA: Findingsigns of life on other planetsbeyond the Earth would be away of answering the biggestquestions that we’vehad as a species so far. Where do we come from?Are we alone?Of course these questionsare...
The earth is not alone in the last few yearsScientists have found that our planet is just one of billions out there in the Milky Way galaxyThere’s a really decent chance that there are...
Using data from the NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, scientists have discovered 15 new planets that may contain water. The one that has the best conditions to support life is orbiting a dwarf star known...
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and European Space Observatory, scientists have discovered that the planets of the planetary system TRAPPIST-1 probably have water. Namely, they have discovered that five of the planets have about...
Recently, scientists have found 7 exoplanets in TRAPPIST-1 star system. A new study reveals that three of them contains great conditions and may harbor life. Scientists have revealed that two of seven planets of...
Using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) at La Silla Observatory in Chile, scientists have detected a new exoplanet Ross 128b orbiting a nearby star Ross 128. The exoplanet is the size...
A new exoplanet-hunting instrument, MASCARA (Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA), will help scientists observe the entire sky in their search for habitable planets. The MASCARA station is located at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, where...
This Monday, NASA announced 219 new exoplanets that are potential candidates for terrestrial life. However, they also reveal ten of them that lies in the habitable zone and have the right temperature that may...
In this video, Trace Dominguez from DNews explains why seven newly found Earth-size exoplanets in TRAPPIST-1 are not actually habitable. He helps us understand a difference between the planets in the habitable zone and...
Astronomers from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have detected a mysterious signal from a sun-like star in Hercules constellation, known as HD 164595. This is not the first time that astronomers spotted the...
In this video, planet hunters, who are looking for a new Earth, explain how this process looks like. The video gives us a review of the searching process that lasts twenty years.
Even though a mysterious star, KIC 8462582, provokes a lot of questions and different opinions, many scientists do not rush to attribute alien causes to star’s oddity. The mysterious star has an irregular light...
A look at missions to Jupiter and it’s moon Europa. Could a liquid water ocean beneath the surface of Europa have the ingredients to support life? Here’s how NASA’s mission to Europa would find...
For scientists, there is no question about terrestrial life; they are sure that alien life exists somewhere in our Universe. They only wonder if there is alien life close to our planet. In this...
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