"...what's more, You can start to say perhaps what the planet's made of, and you can follow it in its orbit. You can understand it in much more detail." In the future, the revamp ed Hubble Space Teles...
"Well, the way we look for planets is actually very easy. We can't see the planets orbiting other stars because the glare of the star is just simply too great. It wipes out the planets' light. But wha...
How likely that technology will destroy those who invented it? The Drake Equation doesn’t exactly narrow the field. Depending on the variables, the number of intelligent civilizations could be zero...
We have reasons to suspect, based on recent high resolution photography of the surface, that there may be a subsurface ocean there. And where we find water and where we find the right mix of organics,...
…cold conditions that earth has to offer. Professor Freeman believes these rugged microorganisms are probably capable of surviving on Mars. Mars is certainly our best bet for finding life in the inn...
He wears gloves and cleans his tools with alcohol to avoid contaminating the ancient salt samples with modern microorganisms. "The salt round about us was crystallize d out 260 million years ago, and...
(NASA Administrator Dan) Golden accepts that the search for life on Mars is not over. "If we wanna find out what Mars is like, what its weather patterns are like, what its geology is like, where there...
“And so with Magellan we’ve got the first chance, one of the first chances, ok, to really get a complete map and view of it.” The Venusian landscape has a desert-like appearance, but it’s a go...
.....green plants ultimately. When it first appeared therefore, it would have been seen as a poison, it would have been a pollutant. But gradually, through Darwinian natural selection, living organism...
Understanding how life got going on our own planet will help us target where we look for it in space, both within the solar system and beyond. Biophysicist, David Deamer, studies tide pools. A tide po...
...in Mars. Although it was completely wrong about Mars and everything he said about Mars practically was wrong. But, he built up interest in the planet which has carried over to this day. And, so, he...
Launched in 1977, Voyager II explored the outer planets and their weird moons, moving ever deeper into space, into regions completely mysterious to us earthlings. On board is a gold-coated phonograph...
From a planet.......let me get out of here....stay where you are.... Humanoid aliens have been good business in the 20th century. B moviemakers in particular have found a winning formula in showing se...
2042 A.D., powerful orbiting telescopes scour the heavens for signs of life. They focus on a dim yellow globe. Spectrum analyser results, negative, no oxygen, no life. The autotracker zooms into anoth...
