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How will we find life? Life might turn up in our own neighborhood: beneath the Martian surface, perhaps, or in the dark, subsurface oceans of Jupiter's moon, Europa. Or maybe the dream of the ages will come true, and we'll eavesdrop on the communications of extraterrestrial civilizations.
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NASA's search for life. The ultimate goal of NASA's...
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NASA's search for life. The ultimate goal of NASA's Exoplanet Program is to find unmistakable signs of current life. Exoplanets’ own skies could hold such signs, waiting to be revealed by detailed analysis of the atmospheres of planets well beyond our solar system.
Jun 20, 2023 · A sample framework, proposed in 2021, includes a scale ranging from 1 to 7, with hints of other life at level 1, to increasingly substantial evidence, all the way to certainty of life elsewhere at level 7.
Sep 26, 2021 · If extraterrestrial life is found, the key follow-up question is whether it is life as we know it. If not, we will realize that there are multiple chemical pathways to natural life.
The Perseverance rover is searching for evidence of ancient life and microfossils in Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient lake and river delta on Mars. The car-size robot will collect...
Jul 2, 2024 · Space missions, specialized telescopes, and unprecedented technological advances are underway at NASA to find signs of life, and eventually, extraterrestrials themselves. “Do we believe there is life beyond Earth?” asked former astronaut and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.
Jul 9, 2014 · Prof. Sara Seager and her team are building a list of biosignatures - chemicals that could suggest the presence of life on other planets - in their search for extraterrestrial life, writes Joshua Sokol for New Scientist. Seager is “looking at all small molecules, not just the ones linked to life as we know it.”
