…with favorable energetics, deep ocean floors may spawn abundant life outside the conventional habitable zone, just as they have done within our own ‘goldilocks’ world. by Alex Tolley Are the…
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The Blue Spectres of Abyssal Europa
…and social behavior in nonprimate species. The long-term exploration strategy of Europa and its potential global subsurface ocean envisions the future in situ probing for life of the local aquatic…
Europa and Enceladus: Hotspots for Life
…Europa and Enceladus The currently most plausible hypothesis about where life might emerge and flourish in the oceans of the icy moons, is near possible hydrothermal vents on the ocean…
The People’s Space Odyssey: 2010: The Year We Make Contact
…the comparatively small and frightened human beings deep inside it. Floyd and Yakunina hold each other for dear life as the craft’s hull makes terrifying metallic sounds as it is…
Europa’s Oxygen and Aerobic Life
…of a rapidly oxidizing ocean that could support aerobic life, if not a rich as Earth’s, then at least within striking distance of abyssal life density. These estimates may have…
The Rest is Silence: Empirically Equivalent Hypotheses about the Universe
…were to find life elsewhere in the solar system and this life consists of an eclectic admixture of life with the same origins event as life on Earth, and life…
The Human Adventure is Just Beginning: Alien and Star Trek: The Motion Picture at 40
…planet. They are living things.” Ilia Probe: “They are not true lifeforms. Only the Creator and other similar lifeforms are true.” McCoy: “Similar lifeforms. Jim, V’Ger is saying its Creator…
Abundant Phosphorus in Enceladus Ocean Increases Habitability: But is Enceladus Inhabited?
…abundant speculation about the possibility of life in the subsurface oceans of icy moons. Europa’s oceans with possible hydrothermal vents mimicking Earth’s abyssal oceans and the probable site of the…
Upwelling Oceans: Modeling Exoplanet Habitability
…the greatest capacity to host globally abundant and active life. Life in Earth’s oceans depends on upwelling (upward flow) which returns nutrients from the dark depths of the ocean to…
Radiolytic H2: Powering Subsurface Biospheres
…Other Worlds, Quanta Magazine, Accessed online June 2021 https://www.quantamagazine.org/radioactivity-may-fuel-life-deep-underground-and-inside-other-worlds-20210524/ Tolley, A., Detecting Early Life on Exoplanets. February 23, 2018 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2018/02/23/detecting-early-life-on-exoplanets/ Tolley, A., Is Most Life in the Universe Lithophilic? –…