Baseline tool could separate alien life signals from geology on ocean worlds

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...
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They tested 20 molecules in the air of a planet 124 light years away and thought one was the smell of an alien ocean, until other teams reran the data and 87 percent of t…

That sharp, briny smell is not the salt, it is a gas made by life, breathed out by tiny ocean creatures too small to see. For ...

4 black eggs surfaced from the dark heart of the ocean—with alien creatures inside

These spheres from the abyss conceal creatures with startling biology.
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Alien ocean : anthropological voyages in microbial seas / Stefan Helmreich

Life at sea -- The message from the mud : making meaning out of microbes in Monterey Bay -- Dissolving the tree of life : alien kinship at hydrothermal vents -- Blue-green capitalism : marine ...