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NASA’s Webb Could Detect Alien Life in Hours – Here’s How

Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching for familiar biosignatures like oxygen, they’re investigating methyl halides

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Signs of alien life may be hiding in these gases

Scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method hinges on worlds that look nothing like Earth, and gases rarely considered in the search for extraterrestrials.

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Strange aliens could be hiding in gases, scientists say

Strange aliens could be hiding in gases, scientists say - Gases could be found relatively easily and quickly with existing equipment

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If Life on Mars Ever Existed, This Bizarre Rock May Tell Us

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not ...

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Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

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Does exoplanet K2-18b host alien life or not? Here's why the debate continues

A paper published in 2023 spurred discussion about whether life exists on an exoplanet named K2-18b. Two years later, the ...

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NASA launches newest space telescope to seek life’s key ingredients

NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to ...

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Nasa’s new telescope to map the universe in 3D

The telescope will capture a three-dimensional map of the universe, collecting data on more than 450 million galaxies and over 100 million stars ...

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Spherex: Nasa's cutting-edge telescope searching for the origins of life

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...

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From interstellar dust to life beyond Earth: Why scientists can't wait for NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope

The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...

NASA powers down two Voyager science instruments to extend mission life

Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment ...

NASA’s SPHEREx on a Cosmic Ice Hunt: Uncovering the Universe’s Hidden Water

NASA’s upcoming SPHEREx mission is on a quest to track down cosmic reservoirs of frozen water and life-essential molecules in ...

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Weather delays launch of NASA’s newest space telescope set to search for life’s key ingredients

NASA’s two-for-one ... carbon monoxide and other ingredients necessary for life frozen within the clouds of gas and dust that give rise to planets and stars. In particular, astronomers are ...

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SpaceX, NASA launch two missions to 'collect data' on galaxies, sun

NASA and SpaceX successfully launched their SPHEREx and PUNCH missions into orbit Tuesday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, to "collect" data on the sun and millions of galaxies.

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