On October 19, 2017, astronomers with the Pan-STARRS survey detected an interstellar object (ISO) passing through our solar system for the first time. The object, known as 1I/2017 U1 'Oumuamua, ...

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Can life spread throughout a galaxy like the Milky Way without technological intervention? That question is largely unanswered. A new study is taking a swing at that question by using a simulated ...

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Monash University’s Professor John Lattanzio has told the annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia hosted at Swinburne University this week that he thinks this may be so. The idea is ...

Imagine tiny microscopic specks of life, on your computer screen, in the dirt, inside deep ocean trenches--everywhere. Sometimes, they seem so vulnerable and insignificant, yet precisely the opposite ...

It's the idea that life on Earth was seeded from space – which means the same life could exist across the universe GREEN bulging eyes, three heads and putrid breath? Nobody knows what life on Mars may ...

We often wonder whether there are aliens on other planets but what if we ourselves are aliens on the planet we call home? Panspermia, the “controversial” theory that life “began elsewhere in space” ...