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Originally Posted by Lchoy
The Scienctologists might
The closest we had to believing in life else where was that meteroite with what some thought were fossilized bacteria. However upon closer scientific inspection, it was ruled to be non-biological formations in the rocks
Another thing not quite explained would be the "Big Wow" signal. But I'm not sure that borders of evidence, more like something unexplained
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Scientists are interested in planets/moons in our solar system where there is or has been water - Mars, Europa.
http://www.planetary.org/programs/pr...xplore_europa/
In a solar system full of astonishing planets and their moons, Europa stands out. Scientists believe that beneath its unique frozen and cracked surface, there may exist an enormous ocean of liquid water, perhaps twice as much as in all of Earth's oceans.
A recent article suggested comets may contain basic organic building-blocks.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/st...t_results.html
http://www.planetary.org/news/2009/0...dingBlock.html
Scientists have identified a crucial building block of life in samples captured from a comet and returned to Earth by the spacecraft Stardust. The discovery lends support to the theory that key ingredients of life arrived on the early Earth from space, through a heavy bombardment of comets and asteroids.
Soon me may be able to identify "earth-like" planets around other stars.
http://www.planetary.org/news/2009/0...sts_Close.html
The hunt for distant Earths received a tremendous boost this week with the announcement of two remarkable discoveries in a planetary system 20.5 light-years away. In an article submitted to the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, a group of European astronomers reported the detection of a planet estimated to be only twice the mass of Earth. It is by far the smallest world yet discovered orbiting a faraway star. In the same article the authors also report that additional observations of another planet in the same system place it at heart of its star's "habitable zone," where liquid water is stable.