• A biosignature (sometimes called chemical fossil or molecular fossil) is any substance – such as an element, isotope, molecule, or phenomenon – that provides...
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  • proposed deep space fleet of space telescopes designed to search for biosignatures of life in the atmospheres of exoplanets. Daniel Apai, lead astronomer...
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    Groombridge 1618, and HD 156026 may be particularly good targets for future biosignature searches,' said Arney. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 61 Cygni...
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    environments in the Solar System and beyond, the search for planetary biosignatures of past or present extraterrestrial life, and the study of the origin...
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    Zhuchang; Hu, Renyu; Bains, William (11 October 2019). "Phosphine as a Biosignature Gas in Exoplanet Atmospheres". Astrobiology. 20 (2) (published February...
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  • view of a gene as an aperiodic crystal, provides a so-called "agnostic biosignature", a sign of life that does not presuppose any biochemistry. In other...
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    horizontality Provenance Sedimentary record Sedimentology Stratigraphy Rock cycle calcium silica carbonate-silicate Paleolimnology Biosignature  Category v t e...
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  • possible 2450 Ma red alga from the Kola Peninsula, 1650 Ma carbonaceous biosignatures in north China, the 1600 Ma Rafatazmia, and a possible 1047 Ma Bangiomorpha...
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    for extraterrestrial life oxygen is a strong biosignature. That said it might not be a definite biosignature, being possibly produced abiotically on celestial...
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    assessing the release of an additional 250 kg (550 lb) probe called Biosignature Explorer for Europa (BEE), that would have been equipped with a basic...
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