Sentences with phrase «scientists searching for life»

Whilst all the exoplanets discovered around the red dwarf, known as TRAPPIST - 1, are capable of hosting liquid water on their surfaces, three are in orbit in what is known as a star's habitable zone, making them an attractive prospect for scientists searching for life outside of our solar system.

They are much smaller, dimmer and cooler than stars like our Sun, and for a long time scientists searching for life on other worlds paid little attention to them; the general feeling was that they gave out so little heat and light, compared with the Sun, that they were unlikely to host habitable planets.

Two super-salty lakes discovered under ice in the Canadian Arctic could help scientists search for life on other worlds.

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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...

Alien invasions, four - armed ETs and the cosmic lottery — New Scientist talks to the founder of Project Ozma and the inspiration for the modern search for extraterrestrial life.

Scientists Discuss the Search for Life and Odds of E.T.]

Though aliens might have very different needs than Earth - based critters, and may not even require water, scientists lean on a go - with - what - works approach in the search for life.

JPL's upcoming $ 2 billion Europa Clipper mission will borrow its orbital innovations to dodge Jupiter's fierce radiation, and Cassini's scientists are migrating to missions proposed or underway to Jupiter's moons; the ice giants Neptune and Uranus; or back to Saturn's moons, this time armed with new tools to search for life.

Milner, a tech start - up entrepreneur and philanthropist, is partnering with scientists around the world to search for life among the stars

These newly discovered lakes are a potential habitat for microbial life and may assist scientists in the search for life beyond earth.

While ANSMET spends time searching mountain ice, other scientists are examining Antarctica's Dry Valleys — among the coldest, driest places in the world — for signs of life.

«The work by the scientists mentioned in the reports can not be used to directly infer anything about life on Mars,» NASA said, «but may help formulate the strategy for how to search for Martian life.»

The search for intelligent life in outer space is going so well, scientists need a little help from you and your home computer

Unofficially, he is an astrobiologist, a job description recently coined at NASA to describe the cadre of scientists involved in the agency's accelerating search for life beyond Earth.

NASA scientists prepare for an unprecedented look at the Red Planet's ancient seas and modern ice fields — key sites in the ongoing search for life.

Once focused mainly on detecting radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, the institute now employs scientists studying many factors important for the existence of alien life — from Kepler team members who are detecting and characterizing exoplanetary systems, to astrobiologists searching for life in the most extreme environments on Earth and in the solar system's exotic nooks and crannies.

Hydrothermal vents may have existed once on Mars and may still exist in an ocean under Europa's icy crust, some scientists say, making them prime targets in the search for extraterrestrial life.

For the Europa team, planetary scientists and researchers interested in the search for life in the solar system, each step of the Europa mission's journey is an important oFor the Europa team, planetary scientists and researchers interested in the search for life in the solar system, each step of the Europa mission's journey is an important ofor life in the solar system, each step of the Europa mission's journey is an important one.

Searching only for DNA as we know it means we might miss alternate life - forms, says Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Programme.

Other scientists are interested in the frigid surface above Vostok, which should serve as an ideal test site for autonomous robots designed to drill on Europa and search for hidden life.

Agee has plenty of research yet to do on Black Beauty, including partnering with other scientists to search for traces of organic material that would help answer whether Mars could truly have supported life.

In pursuit of evidence that life arose on Earth more than once, scientists are searching for microbes that are radically different from all known organisms

When scientists search for planets that could sustain life, they are basically looking for a planet with nearly identical properties to Earth, Kane said.

In 2009, scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution embarked on a NASA - funded mission to the Mid-Cayman Rise in the Caribbean, in search of a type of deep - sea hot - spring or hydrothermal vent that they believed held clues to the search for life on other planets.

The saltiness of the newly discovered lakes makes them a potential habitat for microbes — which may assist scientists in the search for life beyond Earth.

As scientists step up their search for other life in the universe, two astrophysicists are proposing a way to make sure we don't miss the signal if extraterrestrial observers try to contact us first.

Although NASA terminated funding in 2005 for a proposed Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (which would have searched for evidence of sub-ice, oceanic life on Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede), the Agency was still funding the development of a robotic submarine for exploring the sub-ice oceans of those icy moons in 2007 (Kathleen M. Wong, New Scientist, December 14, 2007).

As NASA beefs up its search for life elsewhere, it has selected two teams of astronomers, planetary scientists and other specialists, led by the University of Arizona and Arizona State University, to join in a systematic search for Earth - like planets.

Comparing these data across many worlds will allow scientists to better understand the origin and physics of these atmospheres, and search for chemical signs of environments suitable for life.

Mars scientists have long associated the search for liquid water on red planet with the possibility of life, since the two are closely linked here on Earth.

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Finally, scientists searching for habitable planets and extraterrestrial life are studying microbes to guide their search.

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.

«This first light from the Keck Interferometer marks a dramatic step forward and will help us accomplish the ultimate goal of the Origins Program — to search for signs of life beyond by examining the light from «Earths» orbiting nearby stars,» said Dr. Charles Beichman, the Origins chief scientist at JPL.

Liquid water is essential for life as we know it, and understanding the distribution and behavior of liquid water beyond Earth can help scientists understand where to search for habitable environments, both within our Solar System and beyond.

Scientists have long known that animals on calorie - restricted diets live longer and healthier, but they've been searching for ways bring about the improvements without asking people to eat less.

Cassini took nearly a half - million images during its mission, which included more than 13 years in orbit around Saturn, a tour that repeatedly took the probe by the moons Titan and Enceladus, two places scientists are eager to send another spacecraft in the search for microbial life.

A team of 21 scientists commissioned last summer to evaluate the feasibility of sending a lander to Europa has come up with a box - shaped, thin - legged concept spacecraft capable of drilling into the moon's icy crust to search for life in...

As we move to the next stage in the search for alien life, the effort will require the expertise of planetary scientists, heliophysicists and astrophysicists.

But we will reach an and involve much larger groups: Our results will find their way to the courses we teach and we will also build up a team of Other Earths Ambassadors — citizen scientists excited by the search for life on other planets and eager to contribute.

In late September 2003, astrobiologist Maggie Turnbull from the University of Arizona in Tucson identified 37 Geminorum as one of the best candidates for hosting Earth - type life from a shortlist of 30 stars (screened from the 5,000 or so stars that are estimated to be located within 100 ly of Earth) that were presented to a group of scientists from NASA's space - telescope project, the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), which will search for habitable planets by using visible light with the «signature» of water and / or oxygen from an Earth - type planet after its scheduled launch around 2013, and the ESA's Darwin project involving six space telescopes (Astrobiology Magazine).

«Confirmation that the chemical energy for life exists within the ocean of a small moon of Saturn is an important milestone in our search for habitable worlds beyond Earth,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

This is the best evidence yet that Enceladus does have a liquid ocean, bound to cause a stir amongst planetary scientists and re-ignite excitement for the search for life living in a salty sub-surface ocean.

In July 2007, a group of American scientists, in association with the National Research Council, issued a report recommending that scientists search for so - called weird life on other worlds, in space and even on Earth.

A long line of evidence has shown that Europa has an underground ocean of liquid water, which for many scientists constitutes the best place in the Solar System to search for alien life.

This atmospheric scientist works at the SETI Institute, which searches for life outside our solar system.

NASA's NExSS collaboration will bring together scientists from diverse backgrounds to help search for evidence of life in other Solar Systems.

Founded in 1984, the SETI Institute has been leading the way in searching for life beyond Earth and now employs over 130 scientists, educators, and support staff.

Supporting the cast are Hamish Linklater as Cal Zapata, a scientist who mans the international satellite station in Hawaii that searches the skies for signs of life; Jesse Plemons as Jimmy «Ordy» Ord, a boatswain aboard USS John Paul Jones; New Zealander John Tui as the ship's engine room expert, Chief Petty Officer Walter «The Beast» Lynch; and, in his professional acting debut, U.S. Army Colonel Gregory D. Gadson, a battalion leader who lost both legs in Iraq in 2007.

Caught between straight science fiction and a monster flick, Europa Report is about a team of scientists sent to one of Jupiter's moons in search for signs of life.