Tag: Alien life
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Outer Space and Martin Rees – reading suggestions
Every space lover has heard of Martin Rees, I bet. He’s (among other things) a UK Astronomer Royal and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and…
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All eyes on Mars
Curiosity (NASA’s rover launched in 2011 and that landed on the Martian surface on August 6, 2012) keeps delivering. Today, NASA announced that the rover “has…
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Space Features of the Week (5 November)
Newsclipping from recent space and tech articles from around the web, some of them really interesting. Nearby neutron star collision could cause calamity on…
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Space Features of the Week (30 July)
As usual, some interesting news from space and technology (yes, I know, it’s difficult to remain positive when we look at the news. Keep…
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Proxima Centauri b keeps getting attention
A few months ago Proxima Centauri b, an exoplanet in the constellation of Centaurus located “only” 4.22 light-years from Earth, got a lot of attention, since…
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More exoplanets to search for alien life – Kepler’s latest discoveries
I have written a lot about exoplanets on this blog in the past, therefore this is a news I can’t avoid discussing here. Just…
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Meet Enceladus – and the (alien) life in the Solar System
I have already written about Enceladus in the past – a frozen world orbiting Saturn and one of the most likely to support life…
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Space Features of the Week (18 March)
This should read more as the space news of the month, both for timing and relevance. Yes, because in these last days we heard…
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What’s so special about Trappist 1
An otherwise unremarkable small, cool and rather faint (19 magnitude, less than Pluto, just to be clear) dwarf star located 39.5 light-years from the…
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Space Features of the Week (23 February)
Today is the moment of my periodic summary of space news worth discussing this week (and in the past few, since I haven’t done…
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See you on Enceladus
That Enceladus is one of the most spectacular moons in the Solar System is already known – for many reasons, including pure aesthetic ones.…
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Water on Mars, what’s the big deal?
… I mean, it’s not like there’s no H2O anywhere in the Solar System apart from our planet. We know for a fact that…
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Life in the universe – where to search for it
I have recently read many articles about where life in the universe is likely to be found and what are the preconditions for it. This…
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Alien Life and E. Coli
In what seems more the plot of a SF novel than a scientific discovery, a new strand of DNA has recently been engineered in…