(Natural News) A tough species of microbes has survived a full year in the harsh environment of outer space, bearing the full brunt of cosmic radiation on the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS) without any sort of protection. In an experiment detailed in the journal Microbiome, Japanese and European researchers left cells of the bacteria Deinococcus radiodurans outside the Japanese Aerospace […]

(Natural News) A recent study published in the journal Science Advances suggests that water may have emerged naturally on rocky planets instead of originating from asteroids or comets. Researchers from France, Denmark and Japan studied a meteorite from Mars nearly as old as the solar system. Based on the rock fragments that constitute the meteorite, the researchers found […]

(Natural News) A study published in Scientific Reports suggests that Mars was likely habitable for in the past and may even be able to host life to this day. An international team of researchers found a diverse community of microbial life a foot below the Atacama desert in South America. The desert is known as the driest non-polar region on Earth […]

(Natural News) Researchers from the Lulea University of Technology in Sweden have discovered 45 distant planets that may be capable of hosting life. In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A, the researchers said that these exoplanets may possess Earth-like atmospheres and may be able to maintain stable liquid water. With several active and […]

(Natural News) Researchers from Cornell University and Lehigh University in Pennsylvania have identified more than 1,000 stars that might be hosting exoplanets with a good view of Earth. In a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the researchers said that these stars are in a direct line of sight to the planet. […]

(Natural News) A team of international scientists from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is preparing to use the world’s biggest radio telescope –  the Five-hundred-meter Aperture radio Telescope (FAST) in China – boosting international efforts to find alien life. Opened in 2016, FAST has so far been used exclusively by Chinese scientists. That’s set to change […]

(Natural News) Researchers from the U.S. and Germany have uncovered two dozen exoplanets that may be better at supporting life than Earth. Exoplanets, celestial bodies that orbit a star other than the sun, are found everywhere in the cosmos. Some of them are located in the orbital region around a star, called the liquid water habitable zone, where planets could have […]

(Natural News) Mars may have multiple lakes hidden beneath ice, suggests a recent study published in the journal Nature Astronomy. The discovery comes as a 2018 study previously found evidence of a large saltwater lake beneath the Martian south pole, a finding met with both excitement and skepticism. Since this assertion, an international team of researchers is supporting the […]

(Natural News) Aliens might have already found us, and they’ve been on the lookout ever since. American physicist James Benford proposes that alien “lurkers” may have set up probes on near-Earth objects (NEOs) that follow an orbital pattern similar to Earth. What’s more, these co-orbitals are very close to us, bound gravitationally not just to the sun but also […]

(Natural News) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has unveiled what it discovered about Ceres in a recent mission, shedding new light on the evolution of the dwarf planet and opening new curiosities. In 2016, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft went into an extended mission to probe Ceres, the biggest object in the asteroid belt and the only dwarf planet in the inner […]