It also may be a great place to hunt
for signs of extraterrestrial life.
An international team of scientists from the SETI Institute, the private organization that is searching
for signs of extraterrestrial life, revealed that it received mysterious signal spikes last year that could have possibly come from an alien civilization.
Not exact matches
Both scenarios offer hopes that beneath Ceres's barren surface there may be regions warm, wet and accessible enough to investigate
for signs of past or even present
extraterrestrial life.
SETI@Home What it is: The Search
for Extraterrestrial Intelligence scans the sky
for signs of life.
The search
for extraterrestrial intelligence has looked
for many different
signs of alien
life, from radio broadcasts to laser flashes, without success.
Thus far, Rein notes, scientists haven't been able to agree upon a single chemical — oxygen,
for example — that could be a conclusive
sign of extraterrestrial life.
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.