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Worlds Without Suns: Nomad Planets Could Number In The Quadrillions

May 30, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The concept of nomad planets has been featured before here on Universe Today, and for good reason. Not only is the idea of mysterious lone planets drifting sunless through interstellar space an intriguing one, but also the sheer potential quantity of [...]

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Rogue Planets Could Drive By And Scoop Up Life

May 10, 2012

Free-floating “rogue” planets may occasionally dip into the inner Solar System, picking up dust containing organic compounds — a.k.a. the ingredients for life — and carry it back out into the galaxy, according to new research by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, Director of the University of Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology in the UK. Remove this ad

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Earth Could Spread Life Across The Milky Way

September 1, 2011

Most of us are familiar with the concept of panspermia – where living organisms can be “seeded” from comet or asteroid impacts – but where does the life-giving content come from? According to a research group led by Mauricio Reyes-Ruiz from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, it just might come from Earth. Remove this [...]

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Claim of Alien Life in Meteorites Needs Further Review

March 7, 2011

A recent paper published by a NASA scientist claims the discovery evidence of fossil bacteria in a rare subclass of carbonaceous meteorite. The claims are extraordinary, and were the paper published somewhere other than the Journal of Cosmology, (and given an “exclusive preview” on Fox News) more people might be taking this seriously. But, even [...]

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Astronomy Without A Telescope – Necropanspermia

November 13, 2010

The idea that a tiny organism could hitchhike aboard a mote of space dust and cross vast stretches of space and time until it landed and took up residence on the early Earth does seem a bit implausible. More likely any such organisms would have been long dead by the time they reached Earth. But… [...]

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