February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
...boundary of the terrestrial planet region, the inner planets may not be capable of supporting more than microbial life.’ [18] The ‘Jupiter as a comet shield’ scenario became ubiquitous in television/film documentary productions as well as the popular...
06 July 2015
From SETI to black crust on Churyumov-Gerasimenko: looking for alien life
...of the Rosetta probe. This week, scientists said that alien microbial life could be present on the comet, as evidenced by its ... , for example. Unverified claims of the discovery of alien life have been made numerous times, meanwhile – and we don...
11 May 2020
Martian brines likely to be present, just not habitable says new study
... study by Eriita Jones at the University of South Australia is in agreement with this suggestion. Her study suggests that microbial life could be supported in nightly brines that are likely widespread through the shallow loose surface deposits known...
15 July 2019
New study says silica aerogel could make Mars habitable
... protect from harmful radiation. But that doesn’t mean to say that a healthy population of plant and microbial life couldn’t get established if the conditions were right. Traditional terraforming means that involve massive environmental modification...
18 February 2021
Success for NASA as Perseverance lands on Mars
... geologist and astrobiologist is equipped with a suite of instruments designed to spot potential telltale signs of past microbial life; including SHERLOC (short for Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals...
24 June 2019
Unusually high methane spike detected by Curiosity
...Organic is often used in the same breath as the word life when talked about in planetary science circles, but organic to ...been released recently. However, this too is no indication of life as it simply might have been produced millions, even billions ...
