Sentences with phrase «astrobiologists like»
Astrobiologists like me study the stars and surrounding planets looking for signs of life.
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«Some parts of Boulby mine are similar to environments we see on Mars, and so we'd like to use Boulby to work out where the best places are to look for signs of ancient life on Mars,» says Charles Cockell, an astrobiologist from Edinburgh University, who heads up the Mars Analogues for Space Exploration project.
Liquids are rare, and astrobiologists think that gaseous planets, the kind that Helling has studied so far, aren't as likely to harbor life as Earth - like rocky ones.
«If it smells like life and looks like life, then it could be life,» says Dirk Schulze - Makuch, a 46 - year - old astrobiologist at Washington State University in Pullman.
IRVINE, Calif. — Mary Voytek, NASA's senior scientist for astrobiology, likes to tell other researchers that «everyone is an astrobiologist; they just don't know it yet.»
Astrobiologists think the other two stars are more likely to host temperate, Earth - like planets.
Astrobiologists believe the other two stars are more likely to host temperate, Earth - like worlds.
Astrobiologist Michael Mumma of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, adds that «the research demonstrates that bodies like Murchison likely delivered DNA precursors to planets in the solar system when they were young.
Duncan Forgan, an astrobiologist at the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work, agrees that Mars might be harboring D. audaxviator - like life because its stable temperatures and physical makeup are similar to that of the South African gold mine.
Studying the orbits of objects like 2012 VP113 can help astrobiologists understand the liklihood of a comet entering the inner Solar System and impacting the Earth.
Astrobiologists theorize that, like ancient Earth, life may have emerged around hydrothermal vents located around the moon's submerged rocky core.
Water - bearing planets like Earth may carry some natural defense mechanism against global freezing, and this might mean liquid water is more common in the Universe than astrobiologists have traditionally assumed.