NASA has quietly hit pause on what it billed as its first dedicated hunt for alien biosignatures, reacting to fresh data that ...
The United States is stepping back from the most direct test yet of possible alien biology on Mars just as new telescopes and ...
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This figure shows ozone detection in Venus' atmosphere between 2006 and 2014 by the ESA's Venus Express. Credit: Evdokimova et al. 2011, JGR Planets Just because we can find ozone in the atmosphere of ...
On Wednesday, news broke that researchers had found the most compelling evidence yet of a “biosignature"—a chemical present at levels that are only consistent with life—on a distant exoplanet. It didn ...
Dimethyl sulfide is cool—and a potential biosignature—but scientists are urging caution before we declare a plankton party some 120 light-years away. Reading time 5 minutes Last week, researchers ...
February 11, 2025, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute awarded the first Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellowship to Dr. Anastasia Yanchilina. Yanchilina will focus on distinguishing biosignatures from ...