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New astronomical data suggest that life on Earth may have been carried to foreign planets as a result of ancient asteroid strikes 
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Carl Sagan said that "extraordinary claims, require extraordinary evidence." In a stunning display of mathematical logic vs common sense, David Spiegel of Princeton University and Edwin Turner from the University of Tokyo published a paper last summer that turns the Drake equation upside down using Bayesian reasoning to show that just because we evolved on Earth, doesn’t mean that the same occurrence would necessarily happen elsewhere; "using evidence of our own existence doesn’t show anything" they argue, "other than that we are here."
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Members of the public are being asked to become online stargazers and join the hunt for nearby planets that could support life.
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NASA’s Kepler mission has spotted the first possibility for a planet to escape to if it turns out the Mayans were right about 2012.
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The Astronomical Observatory of the Autonomous Region of the Aosta Valley (OAVdA) and the INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Torino (INAF-OATo) in 2008 decided to implement and operate the APACHE Project (A Pathway toward the Characterization of Habitable Earths), the first-ever European network of small telescopes devoted to the search for exoplanets in transit around 3,000 bright low-mass stars (M dwarfs) in the solar neighbourhood.
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Russian scientists expect humanity to encounter alien civilizations within the next two decades.
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Autonomous, self-replicating robots -- exobots -- are the way to explore the universe, find and identify extraterrestrial life and perhaps clean up space debris in the process, according to a Penn State engineer, who notes that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence -- SETI -- is in its 50th year.
's comment April 19, 2012 9:23 AM
Again with the little green men. ***sigh*** grumble, grumble...
Sakis Koukouvis's comment,
April 19, 2012 11:37 AM
Why ... grumble.. grumble??? This alien is so cute...LOL
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Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku talks about life across the universe and the existence of other dimensions. Articles about ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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Last year came to an exciting end with the discovery of an Earth-like planet, Kepler-22b, orbiting a sun-like star outside of our solar system.
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Astronomers should hunt for worlds like the fictional Tatooine in "Star Wars," say researchers calculating whether Earth-like planets can exist around paired stars.
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Scientists have outlined which moons and planets are most likely to harbour extra-terrestrial life.
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Story: On August 15, 1977 something unusual happened. The most famous of all SETI candidate signals (it was even mentioned on The X-Files), the Ohio State University "Wow!" signal was detected by a couple of young researchers setting up their equipment in a rented shed. Over 30 years later, after more than 100 follow-on studies, it remains an intriguing unexplained phenomenon.
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