Category Archives: Astrobiology

Panspermia – rocking perception or probable phenomena? Recent evidence for meteorite microfossils

Just last month, 2010. 5th floor of a gray building so nondescript that half the people showed up late. Richard B. Hoover, Astrobiology Group Leader at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama has something he wants us all to see. I look across the table to see all eyes patiently waiting for his powerpoint images. [...]
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What a long strange trip it’s been: Paul Davies’ New Book and Hadronistry Coined

Our recent post on the shadow biosphere attracted a lot of attention, including from Dr. Paul Davies himself.  We’ve been talking to Dr. Davies now and were happy to learn that he has just published a new book on the implications of shadow life for the search for extra-terrestrial beings. Here’s what Dr. Davies had [...]
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Alternate “life” styles: scientists predict the possibility of a Shadow Biosphere

The possibility of strange forms of alien life seems to have just got a whole lot closer to home.  Astrobiologists from Arizona State University, Florida, UC Boulder, NASA, Harvard and Australia have recently theorized about a “shadow biosphere” – a biosphere within a biosphere where alternative biochemistry may be thriving in a way that we haven’t yet [...]
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