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News Archive / Tagged: Nexus for Exoplanet System Science

  • Vita ignotum: How will NASA recognize life as we do not know it?

    Jason RhianJune 26th, 2018

    Since humanity realized that other worlds orbited distant stars, we have wondered what life on these far-flung planets might look like. While Star Trek and other series have depicted the life of these planets as, essentially, humans with bumpy heads - NASA is considering all the possibilities of what alien life might actually be like.