Sentences with phrase «for alien microbes»

JUPITER»S icy moon Europa may be one of the most promising places to look for alien microbes, thanks to its subsurface ocean.

Not exact matches

To prepare for the coming flood of exoplanet data researchers are now compiling lists of possible biosignatures, from spectral hints of gases that might emanate from living things to pigments that could reside in alien plants or microbes.

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.

Today the agency has embraced the search for microbes on Mars and other planets but at least for now tends to avoid the far more controversial topic of looking for alien civilizations.

Scientists discovered a microbe that could provide a model for how «alien life» might survive in uninhabitable planets throughout the universe.

It does not matter whether it's a complex critter or simple microbe: If an alien does not use the same class of biomolecules that Earth life does (DNA, for example), its evolution was almost surely separate from that of Earth — a true «second genesis.»

For example, one has you tracking down microbes that allow the aliens to influence human thought through telepathy so you can create a serum that will stop the aliens from being able to enter human minds, just as they did to President Whitmore (Pullman) in the first Independence Day.

For example, in species - poor, sub-Antarctic island ecosystems, alien microbes, fungi, plants and animals have been extensively documented as causing substantial loss of local biodiversity and changes to ecosystem function (Frenot et al., 2005).

If aliens had been looking out for us with the help of a radio telescope, they would have probably ended up finding nothing during the period of the first 4.5 billion years; of course Earth had dinosaurs and microbes, but we became detectable only by the time of Second World War, after the invention of radar.