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Host Alien Life?
It's no secret that Saturn's moon, Enceladus, is one of the most likely candidates to
host alien life in the solar system.
[10 Exoplanets That Could
Host Alien Life]
«The nature of proof should not be: «Can we point at a planet and say, yes or no, that's the planet
hosting alien life,» said Jacob Bean, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UChicago.
Not exact matches
Are they
host to
alien life?
But in September, a truly exceptional find punctuated this steady drumbeat of discovery: the first
alien planet that could
host life on its surface.
Last month, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of the first
alien world that could
host life on its surface.
When
alien species invade and take over communities, they may not come alone — many plant species are
host to a whole suite of microorganisms that not only
live in plant cells, but also in the soil surrounding the plants» roots.
One of the few things we know about Proxima b, besides that it is a rocky planet with a mass 1.3 times that of Earth, is that its orbit is in the so - called «Goldilocks zone» of its sun: not too hot nor too cold for liquid water, making it a potential
host for
life —
alien, human or both.
So one central argument against the existence of
alien life — the «rare Earth» argument that environments to
host it must be rare — has been more or less disproven.
A new era in the search for exoplanets — and the
alien life they might
host — has begun.
On this episode, the GeekScholars
host a spoiler - free discussion and review of Annihilation, a science - fiction, mystery, quasi-horror film about an
alien anomaly that forms its own unusual ecosystem on Earth, drastically changing all
life within it.
Your
alien hosts — friendly as they may be — probably won't have the same level of expertise in finding affordable term
life insurance as our insurance advisors.