The Margarita Sushi Bar is expensive. I hook my prosthetic fins over the mooring bar as I wait and order beer; the green stuff is delivered in a sachet.
Analysis of Mars rocks by the Curiosity rover has uncovered the building blocks of life – hydrogen, carbon and oxygen – and evidence the planet could once have supported organisms, according to U.S. space agency, NASA.
An Earth-size planet could be orbiting a red dwarf as near as 13 light-years away.
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago and life first appeared here about a billion years later.
They’re some of the most extraordinary life forms, able to survive where nothing else can. Could extremophiles point the way to life on other worlds?
Living on a starvation diet, strange life forms are thriving deep beneath the sea floor.
A U.S. spacecraft orbiting Mars has provided evidence of an ancient crater lake fed by groundwater, adding further support to theories that the Red Planet may once have hosted life, said NASA.
The Milky Way contains at least 17 billion planets the size of Earth, and likely many more, according to a study that raises the chances of discovering a sister planet similar to ours.
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence began in earnest 50 years ago, led by a young American astronomer named Frank Drake – a man who is still confident we’ll eventually find extraterrestrial civilisations.
