Extraterrestrial Life

Live streaming video by Ustream It doesn’t get much better than this (well, of course being in space might be better, albeit colder).

Astronomers hope that one day soon we’ll obtain a spectrum of light that might tell us whether or not an Earth-sized exoplanet harbors life.

In August 1881 the journal “Science” published an article with a letter exchange by two amateur geologist – British Charles R.

NASA's Kepler space telescope has identified a planet that is both similar in size to Earth and within the habitable zone of its sun

The new evidence of liquid water on Enceladus raises hopes that the moon could host extraterrestrial life
 

There has been a lot of discussion recently about the evidence that we are currently within a period of mass extinction, the kind of event that will show up in the fossil record a few million years from now as a clear discontinuity, a radical change in the diversity of life on the planet.

The agency wants to send a robotic mission to Jupiter's enigmatic moon for less than $1 billion. Supporters say that one of the solar system’s most promising places to find life deserves a bigger investment
 

Journalist Lee Billings Talks about his book Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search For Life Among the Stars, Part 2 of 2

Journalist Lee Billings Talks about his book Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search For Life Among the Stars, Part 1 of 2

A trove of 715 planets—all members of multiworld systems—joins the list of Kepler's finds
 

Scientific American technology editor Seth Fletcher talks about the recent Consumer Electronics Show and astronomy editor Clara Moskowitz discusses last month's American Astronomical Society conference  

 

Astronomers have come up with a shopping list of what a planet needs to support life, perhaps even better than our Earth does, making them "superhabitable." Michael Moyer reports