News articles tagged with 'life' (Page 49)
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Planet orbiting a giant red star discovered with Hobby-Eberly Telescope
— 2 Aug 2007 20:09 | AstronomyA planet orbiting a giant red star has been discovered by an astronomy team led by Penn State's Alex Wolszczan, who in 1992 discovered the first planets ever found outside our solar…
Life elsewhere in Solar System could be different from life as we know it
— 6 Jul 2007 19:18 | AstronomyThe search for life elsewhere in the solar system and beyond should include efforts to detect what scientists sometimes refer to as 'weird' life - that is, life with an alternative…
Scientists ponder plant life on extrasolar Earth-like planets
— 19 Jun 2007 18:39 | AstronomyWhen we think of extrasolar Earth-like planets, the first tendency is to imagine weird creatures like Jar Jar Binks, Chewbacca, and, if those are not bizarre enough, maybe even the…