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Have We Been Wrong About the Origins of Life?

Posted in Featured, Science on 19th Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller

An alternative idea; that life arose deep in the ocean within warm, rocky structures called hydrothermal vents.

NASA's Next Mars Rover Intensifies Hunt for Extinct Martian Microbes

Posted in Science on 18th Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller

The 2020 Mars Rover already deep into development. It'll be targeting rocks with the best chance of revealing ancient Martian life.

Earth-like planets around proxima centauri discovered- could support life?

Posted in Science on 15th Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller

4000+ exoplanet candidates have been discovered by the Kepler mission. Proxima is the nearest star to the sun.

Are we looking for Martian life in all the wrong places?

Posted in Science on 9th Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller

Organic compounds that may have existed in/on rocks located on the surface of Mars would have been degraded by radiation from the Sun.

A supernova might have abetted a mass extinction on earth

Posted in Science on 13th Jul, 2016
by Alex Muller

An exploding star hundreds of light-years from Earth may have played a role in a minor mass extinction that happened 2.59 million years ago.