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The Frantic Determination of Some Scientists to Discover Life Elsewhere

July 6, 2018

We often hear exciting news about 'habitable planets' that might have life, or at least the 'building blocks of life.' Are these reports based on sound thinking about the requirements?

Origin of Life

NASA Titillates Public Again with Fake Mars Life

June 9, 2018

Which is worse: NASA making hyper-exaggerated claims about life on Mars over the decades, or so many media reporters falling for it each time?

Origin of Life

Enceladus Pumps Imagination into the Vacuum

April 17, 2017

NASA astrobiologists abandon scientific restraint in a naked push to titillate taxpayers for another vain quest to find life beyond Earth.

Solar System

Trending: Moons With Oceans

October 14, 2016

Europa has one. Enceladus has one. Titan might have one. Now, it seems every moon wants an ocean under its crust.

Origin of Life

Astrobiology Has No Bio

December 17, 2014

When you take the "bio" out of astrobiology, what do you get? Is it still a science?

Solar System

Saturn Rescues Earth: Outer Planet Wonders

November 22, 2014

How Saturn saved the Earth, and other news from the ringed planet, its family, and other bodies in the outer solar system.

Origin of Life

The Miller Experiment Is Dead; Long Live the Miller Experiment

September 12, 2014

The image of Stanley Miller pondering his spark-discharge apparatus is too valuable an icon to toss on the trash heap of history.

Origin of Life

Mars Radiation Fries Organic Compounds

September 5, 2014

Don't expect the "building blocks of life" to last very long on Mars.

Darwin and Evolution

How to Liven Up Dead Geology

May 24, 2012

A new study shows some carbon compounds from Mars formed, not by living organisms, but from geological and chemical processes. What does life have to do with it? Ask some science reporters.

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