Sentences with phrase «find signs of alien life»

This rather shocking belief — that we will find signs of alien life within 20 years — stems back to the massive success of the Kepler space telescope.

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However eccentric he was, and whatever one's view of the wisdom of such «small» missions (Beagle 2 cost a mere # 66m, compared with the $ 1.6 bn which Nasa spent on its Mars Reconnaissance Rover), Pillinger's enthusiasm to find out if there is evidence of alien life is a sign of the intellectual curiosity that lies at the heart of all good science.
This year DISCOVER honors David Charbonneau, a Harvard University astronomer whose research could soon lead to an equally stunning revelation: By studying alien worlds, he may find the first direct evidence of life beyond Earth, a sign that our living planet is — yet again — one among many.
Cluster computing is not a new idea, having found success on desktop computers with projects like SETI@home, which uses idle PCs to search for signs of alien life.
The next step will be to analyze the core for microbes and other signs of life, which, if found, will add a second member to this alien landscape in the deep.
Researchers with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) looked for radio signals coming from the star's galaxy (which could be a sign of alien life) but failed to find any.
Scientists looking for signs of alien life from the mystery object passing through our Solar system say they've found nothing «so far».
Since then, he has dedicated his career to trying to find a sign — any sign — that can be explained only by the existence of technologically advanced alien life.
Using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, scientists with the Breakthrough Listen initiative — a massive project dedicated to finding signs of intelligent alien life — recorded 15 repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) on August 26.
Norton says future missions to find Earth - like planets in Earth - like orbits will be when the real search for signs of alien life will begin.
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