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Deep sea bacteria spurn the Sun, instead using Earth's internal heat for photosynthesis

Phil Plait

Mar 1, 2021

cutaway diagram of Enceladus

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: astrobiology

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Mars methane mysteriously missing

Phil Plait

Dec 29, 2020

Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars taken near its closest approach to Earth in 2016. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute)

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Why is Earth still habitable after billions of years? In part, we're just lucky.

Phil Plait

Dec 28, 2020

Artwork depicting Earth without water (left) versus the actual planet observed from space (right). Credit: David Gallo/WHOI and NASA/NOAO

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

UPDATE: Life above hell? Serious doubt cast on Venus phosphine finding

Phil Plait

Oct 26, 2020

Processed image from the Japanese Akatsuki spacecraft showing Venus in ultraviolet (left) which emphasizes clouds, and infrared (right) which shows its thermal signature. Credit: JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Kevin M. Gill

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

So, astronomers *may* have found evidence of life on Venus

Phil Plait

Sep 14, 2020

Venus in ultraviolet shows interesting — and difficult to explain — contrasts in the cloud blanket. Credit: JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Damia Bouic

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Rocket Lab shooting for the clouds of Venus with life-searching 2023 mission

Jeff Spry

Aug 20, 2020

DNA nearly a billion years old is being warped to figure out how life could evolve on other planets

Elizabeth Rayne

Aug 18, 2020

Mr. DNA from Jurassic Park

Did brutally-hot, barren Mercury once hold the ingredients to support life?

Jeff Spry

Mar 27, 2020

Earth must have spawned life way later than we thought

Elizabeth Rayne

Mar 16, 2020

NASA image of Earth

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Meteorites

Sweet! Sugars found in meteorites for the first time

Phil Plait

Dec 9, 2019

Artwork depicting meteors falling on the early Earth. Did they carry the building blocks for life on them? Many certainly did. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Meteorites

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Debate Club: The best twist endings in movie history

Tim Grierson Will Leitch

Jan 23, 2019

Tag: Debate Club

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Life in hell: Could Venus have a bacterial infection?

Phil Plait

Apr 3, 2018

Venus in ultraviolet shows interesting — and difficult to explain — contrasts in the cloud blanket. Credit: JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Damia Bouic

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Exclusive: Life Blu-ray clip makes you ponder picking up alien hitchhikers

SYFY WIRE Staff

Jun 7, 2017

Tag: Daniel Espinosa

About the end of Life: Director Daniel Espinosa explains what happens next

Aaron Sagers

Mar 30, 2017

Tag: Daniel Espinosa

Tag: Daniel Espinosa

Life director Daniel Espinosa on his film's philosophy and comparisons to Alien and Arrival

Aaron Sagers

Mar 24, 2017

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