Sentences with phrase «search for life on other planets»

House Science Committee Queries Astrobiology Researchers Searches for life on other planets get the Congressional spotlight.

And readers of Deception Point had seen televised NASA rocket launches and knew about the search for life on other planets.

We thought that the search for life on other planets meant finding Earth's twin.

That is the conclusion of a new analysis inspired by the search for life on other planets.

If we are going to search for life on other planets, we need to think about how the entire spectrum of life works.»

New simulations show that the search for life on other planets may well be more difficult than previously assumed, in research published today in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The find has implications for the search for life on other planets, suggesting extra-terrestrial microbes could also rely on trace atmospheric gases for survival.

That is good news for the search for life on other planets.

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.

According to the report, prepared by a committee of chemists, biologists, geologists, and astronomers, the search for life on other planets has been hampered by Earth - centric assumptions — that life depends on water, for example.

Hoehler says that the research could inform the search for life on other planets.

As impact glass is a ubiquitous substrate on rocky bodies throughout the Solar System and likely common on the early Earth, the preservation of biological activity in impact glass has significant astrobiological implications for life on early Earth as well as for the search for life on other planets.

Understanding microorganisms here on Earth, especially those that inhabit extreme environments, may help us understand the potential for alternate lifeforms and to search for life on other planets.

New discoveries, especially the search for life on other planets, often provoke discussion and debate.

Ever since Carl Sagan first predicted that extraterrestrial civilizations must number in the millions, the search for life on other planets has gripped our imagination.

They are the most abundant form of life on Earth, but viruses — or their seed - like dormant state, known as virions — are outliers in our search for life on other planets.

New simulations show that the search for life on other planets may well be more difficult than previously assumed, in research published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.