#xenobiology — Public Fediverse posts

On trying to find signs of alien visits inside our own solar system:

“Have They Been Here?” [2025], Aeon (https://aeon.co/essays/why-were-searching-for-alien-tech-in-the-solar-system).

#Aliens #ET #ExtraTerrestrialLife #UFOs #SolarSystem #Mars #Astrobiology #Xenobiology

@noracodes might also be worth looking in to #exobiology (aka #astrobiology ) and #xenobiology , where scientists directly study possible life on exoplanets. I don’t follow it enough to have a reading list, so the citations section of the Wikipedia page is the first place I’d look - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology

A MOMENT OF SILENT REFLECTION ... for all the craziness in this world. Meow. #caturday #errtlings #bookcafe #news #society #ballroom #war #peace #crime #punishment #writing #art #ai #android_dreams #space #religion #philosophy #good #evil #media #halloween #paranormal_things #xenobiology #junk

Webb spots strongest 'hints' yet of life on distant planet
https://www.rte.ie/news/science/2025/0417/1508109-webb-telescope/
#xenobiology #astrobiology #biology #webbtelescope

Where No E. Coli Has Gone Before https://hackaday.com/2025/02/24/where-no-e-coli-has-gone-before/ #xenobiology #exoplanets #seti@home #bacteria #Space #Ecoli #SETI

Today, in crazy #SciFi research - reinventing #photosynthesis . This type of Cu–Pd disordered network metamaterials can convert #CO2 into simple organic molecules by interaction with light, but it needs to be rather hot (225–300 °C). Can't but think of the Interesting implication for #xenobiology, in addition to what it can do for matter synthesis.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c05426

How did life get started?

I just read a really cool paper, revisiting a classic origin-of-life experiment. Like Miller and Urey before them, these researchers simulated a tiny pond on ancient earth, and struck it with "lightning."

They confirmed this produces biochemicals, but this time they used advanced microscopy to show it also produces tiny bubbles that look surprisingly lifelike on their own, and could serve as shelters for protolife.

Awesome finding! This really could have been important for life's origins (though, to be properly alive, the protocell would need to be able to make its own vesicle, and divide it). It's a little disheartening, though, as this new evidence makes the search for microbial fossils that much harder.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413816122

#science #life #biology #cosmology #xenobiology

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #412: Lake Vostok.
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#lakevostok #antarctica #lakes #aliens #science #xenobiology #underground #southpole #vostok #webcomics #comics #didyouknow #strangebuttrue #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

#MassimoPigliucci - #Philosophy of #Alien #Life & #Intelligence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5VaV8zyOuw

#PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfBiology #Biology #Astrobiology #Astrophysics #Evolution #Xenobiology #SETI #Drake #DrakeEquation #Fermi #EnricoFermi #FermiParadox #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

Another cool idea (no pun intended) on where else life might develop. Sci-Fi writers, on your mark, get set, go!

#exoplanets #xenobiology #eyeballplanets

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/forget-earth-like-we-ll-first-find-aliens-on-eyeball-planets

The technology is out there! 😉

‘Amazing’ new technology set to transform the search for alien life;

A conference in the UK this week will outline new developments in a project to look for ‘technosignatures’ of other advanced species

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/13/amazing-new-technology-set-to-transform-the-search-for-alien-life

#science #news #SETI #PhoneHome #ET #Extraterrestrial #astronomy #xenobiology #technology

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-from-space/id1634360886?i=1000641770027

#podcast #FermiParadox #xenobiology

Here's an obscure one, courtesy of library volunteer, Silverblue 🙏

This companion book to IN OTHER WATERS is packed full of incredible sketches of the creatures and ecosystem of exoplanet "Gliese 667Cc".

Read more about it in #TheVideoGameLibrary:

👉https://thevideogamelibrary.org/book/a-study-of-gliese-667cc

#JumpOverTheAge #GarethDamianMartin #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Game #Gaming #Gamer #VideoGame #VideoGames #Steam #Gliese667Cc #InOtherWaters #PCGaming #PCGame #Ocean #Sea #MarineLife #Biology #Xenobiology

#Science question.

Given how deep down #water can be found in Earth's crust, is there any decent possibility of finding it deep in Mars's?

Would it be warm enough within #Mars for it to be liquid?

If so, what could that mean for possible life on (in) the planet? Both local and for us incoming?
#Space #astronomy #xenobiology #colonisation

I think many millennials are secretly unbloomed xenobiologists, xenopaleontologists, or xenarcheologists. We grew up seeing all those promises of technological wonder and new discoveries, only to become grown ups worrying if tomorrow there will be breathable air, food, and a home. With this came an unhealthy hate towards managers, oligarchs, and politics for ruining the world and our inner child dreams.

#innerchild #xenobiology #disappointment #millenials

Throwback to a #speculativeBiology project I did for a class as an undergrad at a junior #college. I wanted to theorize what life could evolve on #Europa and I as fueled by a love of #cephalopods and #AlienPlanet and other #speculative projects this was the result.

It's all very old, so be gentle. Some of these ideas worked their way into some of my more recent work: https://www.hpkomics.com/secret/europa/

#science #xenoBiology #education

A very interesting read about the forefront of xenobiological resarch, from identifying biological processes, to non-carbon-based and more.

#ScienceEveryday #Lyfe #Xenobiology

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life-as-we-dont-know-it/

What If #Alien #Life Were #Silicon-Based?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=469chceiiUQ&ab_channel=PBSSpaceTime

#Science #Zoology #XenoBiology #Biology #Physics #Chemistry #Elements #PeriodicTable #Biochemistry #Evolution #AlienLife #SiliconBased #SiliconBasedLife #SiliconChemistry #SiliconBiochemistry #CarbonBased #CarbonBasedLife #PBS #SpaceTime #PBSSpaceTime #MattODowd

How to Survive in a Sci-Fi Movie:

You've been on a 5-year xenobiology mission to observe the flora and fauna of a candidate planet for colonization when a troop of Space Marines boards your ship and the mission has been routed to a new planet.

Get off the ship, by escape pod if necessary if you want to live.

#Sci-Fi #Exploration #SpaceMarines #Xenobiology

One of the most entertaining novels I've ever heard!

A nondivergent #entomology student find herself on an alien plant. She can make clones of herself & alter them! Can she survive?

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#LGBTQIA+ #Biology #xenobiology #astrobiology #hivemind

If you love science, ADHD minds, logical thinking, insects, biology, epistemic and ontological curiosity, aliens, and the most exciting novel ever, here ya go!

https://www.audible.com/pd/Hive-Minds-Give-Good-Hugs-Audiobook/B0BBWT87ZT