(Natural News) If Venusian life does exist, it may have originated from Earth: An interplanetary hopper hitched a ride with an asteroid that grazed Earth’s upper atmosphere and landed on Venus. Researchers from Harvard University — astronomy professor Avi Loeb and student Amir Siraj — proposed the idea after a group of scientists recently detected signatures of phosphine. Microorganisms […]

(Natural News) The key to successfully terraforming the Red Planet may lie in some terrestrial microbes. According to microbiologist Jose Lopez and his colleagues W. Raquel Peixoto and Alexandre Rosado, microbes from Earth may be able to jumpstart the creation of a habitable environment on Mars, the same way early microbes kickstarted the creation of […]

(Natural News) We may need to be less anthropocentric if we are to find evidence of extraterrestrial life, experts say. Speaking at the inaugural TESS Science Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a panel of experts noted that holding on to the assumption that alien life will be similar to what evolved here […]

(Natural News) Researchers trying to figure out how extraterrestrial life may think are starting to look in different places. In one study, presented at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference, a group of researchers from the University of Washington (UWash) in Seattle believe that the way the arms of a cephalopod like the octopus “think” can be a model […]

(Natural News) Those looking for signs of life outside our planet should take a look first at what’s living deep beneath the ocean’s surface, according to astrobiologists. In a talk presented at the Astrobiology Science Conference, post-doctoral investigator Amy Smith said the Lo’ihi seamount, located just off the southeastern coast of Hawaii’s Big Island, can […]

(Natural News) One of the experimenters involved with the Labeled Release (LR) life detection experiment that took place during NASA’s Viking mission to Mars back in 1976 has gone public with the claim that life on Mars was discovered more than 40 years ago, even though the government has yet to admit the truth. According […]

(Natural News) Years ago, NASA’s Curiosity rover snapped a set of photos of the surface of Mars. A provocative new study interpreted those images as evidence that mushrooms were growing on the Martian soil. The researchers pointed out features in 15 images that resembled algae, lichens, and mushrooms on Earth. They added that the shapes […]

(Natural News) Brazilian researchers have new reason to believe that a nearby exoplanet fits the bill for supporting extraterrestrial life. Their study suggests that the planet Ross 128b is likely to be a rocky world with a temperate climate, an article in Space.com stated. Discovered in 2017, the new exoplanet is 11 light-years away from […]

(Natural News) This week, a team of scientists reported discovering a lake beneath the surface of an ice cap on the southern pole of Mars. This lake is not small by any means; it measures 12.5 miles wide and is a very significant finding. The scientists made the discovery using the Mars Advanced Radar for […]

(Natural News) In June 2018, the unstoppable Curiosity rover uncovered preserved organic compounds in the Gale crater of Mars. The momentous find led an interplanetary expert to argue that future missions bring experiments and instruments for identifying bio-signatures, an article in News Wise reported. “The presence of preserved organics, carbon-hydrogen containing, compounds at the Gale […]