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An artist's impression of the Cassini spacecraft flying through plumes erupting from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. These geysers are very similar to geysers and emit a mixture of water vapor, ice grains, salts, methane and other organic molecules. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The Webb Space Telescope discovers a 10,000 km long plume of water erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus

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This is the first time that such an emission of water has been seen from such a great distance, and in addition, the web allows researchers a direct view, for the first time, of how this emission feeds the water supply of the entire system of Saturn and its rings
JUICE operation schedule. Infographic: European Space Agency

The European spacecraft JUICE is ready to explore the icy moons of Jupiter; Will be launched on 13/4

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The purpose of the operation - to find out if the oceans hidden beneath the surface of Jupiter's icy moons have the potential to support extraterrestrial life
A nuclear war. Image: depositphotos.com

The Drake formula (calculating the probability of discovering intelligent aliens): the missing parameter and the fate of humanity

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The Drake formula was an attempt to calculate the probability of intelligent life on other planets. But human history shows that the formula was probably too optimistic, and that there is something missing in the calculation. This missing parameter could be critical to understanding the development of intelligent life in the galaxy, and more importantly: the development of humanity, and its chances of survival
The Trappist-1e solar system is relatively close to Earth and contains three planets in the habitable zone. Photo: depositphotos.com

Disseminating a location as a DHA in the hope of reaching aliens is a controversial idea - two teams of scientists are doing it anyway

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While SETI (the search for extraterrestrial radio signals) has long since become part of mainstream science, METI, or the transmission of messages to intelligent extraterrestrial beings, has been a less common field. Two such projects are now underway
TESS simulation. Source: NASA.

Goodbye Kepler, hello Tess: a new telescope will take over the baton in the search for planets

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radio telescope. Photo: from PIXABAY.COM

The huge investment of one hundred million dollars in the search for signals from aliens has not yet brought results

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Processing of one of the images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in ultraviolet radiation. Note the light blue structures that protrude from the surface of Europa's moon into space (at the bottom of the moon on the left side, 7 o'clock). Further tests revealed that these were most likely water eruptions from the surface of the moon.

Is there life on the moon Europa?

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Simulation of extrasolar planets. Source: NASA

Planets for the most part - there is no life

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Simulation of the surface of the sky as it might be seen from the surface of the planet TRAPPIST-1f, one of the three new planets found in the host region of the dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. The seven planets in his planetary system are so close together that they can be clearly seen from the surface of one of them. Imaging: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

A system of seven Earth-like planets was discovered, three of them in the zone suitable for the existence of liquid water

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Antarctica: The warm water seeps under the glaciers. Photo: shutterstock

Living according to the devil

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Simulation of the orbital configuration of the Wolf 1061 system. Wolf 1061 is an inactive red dwarf, small and cold from the Sun located 14 light years away from us. The orbits of planets b, c and d have a duration of 4.9, 17.9 and 67.2 days. In the simulation it is seen that the orbits of the planets are on one plane. The habitable zone around the star is marked in green - the part where it is too hot is marked in red and the cold part in blue. Illustration: Made using Universe Sandbox 2 software from universesandbox.com

The closest planet to the solar system that is in the habitable zone of its solar system has been discovered

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The icy and mysterious surface of 'Europa' as photographed by the spacecraft 'Galileo'

An astrobiologist suggests possible types of landing sites that would allow the detection of signs of life if these exist in the subsurface oceans

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Two out of three climate simulations demonstrated the possibility of life even on planets that show their sun only one side. Illustration, KU University, Belgium

Even the planets facing one side to their sun may have life

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A section of the very large array - a concentration of radio telescopes used, among other things, to search for radio signals from aliens. Photo: shutterstock

Will aliens interpret the first message from humanity to them as a cyber attack?

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Earthlings-Aliens Friendship Association. Illustration: shutterstock

Hello, is there anyone out there?

The planet HD189733b emerges from behind its sun. Image: NASA

Want to discover life in space? Look for methane

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The chart compares the planets in our solar system with Kepler 186, a five-planet system 500 light-years from Earth in the direction of the Cygnus group. The five planets orbit Kepler 186 - an M-type dwarf, a star about half the size and mass of the Sun. Figure: NASA Ames Center, ST Institute, JPL-Caltech

Similar but also different: an almost twin planet to Earth orbiting a red dwarf in an orbit that allows life

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Mountains and a moon on an Earth-like planet. Illustration: shutterstock

Super Earths may contain oceans and continents

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An alien world with a large moon. Illustration: shutterstock

The breaking dawn over a distant sky / Michael D. Lemonique

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Kepler-22b, image: NASA

Kepler discovered the first planet located in the center of the habitable zone

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A proposal to search for artificial lights in planets orbiting other suns. Figure: CfA

City lights may reveal an intelligent civilization

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Orion Nebula and oxygen molecules following the discovery of these molecules in the areas where stars are formed in the Orion Nebula by the Herschel Space Telescope Image: NASA

The Herschel telescope detected oxygen molecules in space

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Professor Richard B. Hoover, an expert on carbonaceous meteorites and an astrobiologist in the service of NASA

Bacteria from another world were discovered in the meteorite

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The moon Europa in natural colors

Jupiter's Moon Europa: Summary of Findings

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Carboniferous rocks in the Nili region of Mars, which apparently contain evidence of life in the early period of Mars

Carboniferous rocks discovered on Mars may contain evidence of life there 4 billion years ago

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