In fact, planet Earth is one big environment! Look ... after our environment. The things that we throw away or waste can sometimes harm the world around us. Here are three simple ways you can ...

There is no way our eyes can take in the size of the spherical Earth when we are standing on it. You couldn't tell the Earth was a sphere even if you hiked to the top of Mount Everest, which is ...

Detecting life beyond Earth Since the first discovery of an exoplanet in 1995, over 5,000 exoplanets, or planets orbiting other stars, have been found. Many of these exoplanets are small and rocky ...

How do you find a comet that could pose a threat to Earth but hasn't passed our planet in the last 200 years or more? You look for its footprint ... This means researchers can find these comets ...

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe — life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might ...

Chris Impey receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what ...

Citation: Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth—astrobiologists seek framework for how complex systems evolve (2024, December 9) retrieved 5 January 2025 from https://phys ...