Sentences with phrase «life on a nearby planet»
Case in point, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg is joining forces with fellow billionaire Yuri Milner and famed scientist Stephen Hawking to search for alien life on a nearby planet...
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But Ross 128 seems to be more tranquil, not emitting the flares that would plague life on a nearby planet.
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Life as we know it could not exist on the gas - giant planet, and its nearby suns would incinerate any cities all on their own.
My basic feeling is it's unlikely that we're going to find [a planet] nearby that has intelligent life on it.
Such stars are usually prone to deadly eruptions of ultraviolet radiation and X-rays, so nearby planets are likely to be severely irradiated, casting doubt on whether life could survive there.
Despite the challenges that life may have in developing on a planet, it appears that the presence of a nearby companion in the struggle may help.
A new study on the density of the seven planets in the nearby TRAPPIST - 1 system has found that these worlds may have even more water than Earth does — but in a cruel case of having too much of a good thing, that might be enough to drown out any hopes of finding life there.
And I'll end with the thought that if we do decide brown dwarf planets are not uncommon, and that complex life may find ways of evolving on such worlds, then nearby space may be littered with astrobiologically interesting destinations that are largely unknown to us.
The findings range from a breakthrough for stabilizing fusion plasmas to good news for the international ITER project going up in France to new thoughts about the chances of life on planets circling nearby stars.
In any case, any developing carbon - based life on a developing Earth - type planet would be subject to tremendous heat on a newly formed planet that is under intense asteroidal and cometary bombardment, in addition to the intense and deadly radiation produced by nearby supernovae and other massive young stars.
Its ultimate purpose is to learn if some sort of life exists on planets circling nearby stars; Hawking and other scientists postulate that many of the hundreds of newly discovered exoplanets must harbor some forms of life.
While the humans on the ship sleep, the crew, now without a captain, receives a scrambled message of a John Denver song from a nearby planet, which suggests the presence of human life — or a race of aliens who love folk music.