NASA’s Dark Universe-Seeking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches - NASA

Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The

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What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 1: The Atmospheric Fingerprint

If an alien civilization could see Earth only as a single pale blue dot, what could they learn? We start with transit spectroscopy, the biosignature cocktail of oxygen, methane, ozone, and water, and ...

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From Stardust to Consciousness: Life in the Cosmos

Explore life’s origins, astrobiology, consciousness, and humanity’s place in the cosmos through science and the humanities.

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Habitable Worlds Targets in New Star Activity Catalog

Searching for habitable worlds beyond our solar system consists of more than just having it orbit within its star’s habitable zone, which is the region where temperatures could be just right for liqui...

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The universe may be hiding conscious minds stranger than we can imagine

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness could arise in many different forms of life, even in beings built from...

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Why Consciousness Might Not Belong to Us Alone

We have spent centuries being knocked off our pedestal. Earth isn't the centre of the Solar System, the Sun isn't the centre of the Galaxy, and we are not the point around which everything else turns....

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The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

A decade ago, we discovered an exceptionally exciting exoplanet that could be the best candidate for hosting alien life. Now we’re about to find out if it really is

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James Webb discovers a rare giant planet with surprisingly Earth-like temperatures

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a rare world unlike anything in our solar system — a giant planet about the size of Saturn with surprisingly Earth-like temperatures ...

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Ancient asteroid craters may have sparked Earth’s oxygen-producing life

A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by...

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Google selects U of A for quantum research group focused on life sciences

The Research Program at the Intersection of Life Sciences & Quantum AI, or REPLIQA, brings together U of A researchers from science and engineering fields to lay a foundation for new biological discov...

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Episode 198: Many Ways to Know About Life in the Universe

Podcast Episode · Strange New Worlds: A Science & Star Trek Podcast · April 28 · 1h 11m

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NASA’s Curiosity Finds Organic Molecules Never Seen Before on Mars - NASA

After years of lab work, the results are in: A rock that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover drilled and analyzed in 2020 includes the most diverse collection of

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Life Beyond Biosignatures: A New Method In The Search For Life

Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) and National Institute for Basic Biology have developed a new method to detect extraterrestrial life without relying on traditional biosignatur...

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‘Project Hail Mary’ explores unique forms of life in space – 5 essential reads on searching for aliens that look nothing like life on Earth

The fictional biologist in ‘Project Hail Mary’ claims that potential alien organisms might not be made of carbon or require water, unlike life on Earth.

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The Time Capsule in the Salt Flat

High in the Chilean Andes, at an altitude where the air is thin and the Sun is intense, a salt flat is hiding something remarkable. Locked inside ancient crystals of gypsum are the preserved remains o...

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