Reehanul Islam
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Scientists detect signature of life on a distant planet, study suggests
A team of astronomers have detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible biosignature, or signs of past or present life linked to biological activity, on an exoplanet named K2-18b. But the study authors, and other experts, remain cautious and have not declared a definitive discovery of life beyond our planet.
By Reehanul Islam9 months ago in Fiction
Nasa digs up new clue in search for life on Mars
Scientists studying soil samples from Nasa's Curiosity rover have discovered that a carbon cycle similar to the one that sustains life on Earth once played out on the red planet.While it's unclear whether Marsever supported life, its current harsh environment may be due to an "imbalanced" carbon cycle."Mars seems to have been habitable for its first billion years and that waned very quickly," Ben Tutolo, a space researcher at the University of Calgary, Canada, told DW.
By Reehanul Islam9 months ago in Fiction
The Last Transmission
By the year 2196, humanity had colonized Jupiter's moons, constructed floating cities above Venus, and carried out deep-space missions toward Proxima Centauri. The most ambitious of these was the Odysseus, a one-way trip to Kepler-442b, an exoplanet more than 1,200 light-years away that resembles Earth. The crew of six—four humans and two sentient AIs—had volunteered to spend the rest of their lives in stasis, only to be awakened upon arrival over a millennium later. That was the plan.
By Reehanul Islam9 months ago in Fiction
After eating a planet, this star burped, but the planet was really asking for it.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but whereas astronomers had originally thought that the star was a red giant that engulfed the planet, the JWST has found a very different story: The planet crashed into the star.
By Reehanul Islam9 months ago in Earth
