Tag: astrobiology
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Is there life on Maaaaaars?
Even with our best laboratory equipment, we can’t always identify life on Earth, where we know it exists. This means we can’t answer the question about life on Mars.
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To know if there are aliens, we need to ask the right questions
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Are We Alone in the Universe? How can we know if life exists elsewhere in the cosmos? To answer that question, we have to place Earth — and Earth…
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The first known interstellar visitor to the Solar System
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Cosmic Driftwood What a floating rock can tell us about life in the rest of the universe Last October, we had the first known interstellar visitor to the Solar…
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Can we recognize life if we see it on other worlds?
Back in June, I traveled to a remote lake in British Columbia to visit a NASA research site. That trip resulted in a long article I wrote for Mosaic, which roamed over a wide range of topics: what a Canadian lake has to do with life on Mars, the difficulty of identifying life on other…
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