Will We Soon Find Life in the Heavens? Discovered: Distant 'Earths' and Dirty ice on Mars; Up Next: Wiretapping E.T.'s Phone.

U.S. News & World Report | August 4, 2008| | Copyright

Byline: Brian Vastag

Alien-hunting scientists have had an eventful year, and they're about to get busier. In just the past few months, life-friendly soil and ice turned up on Mars, astronomers bagged a trio of Earth-like planets in a distant star system, and scientists looking closer to home reported that certain hardy microbes thrive below Earth's ocean floor--a big clue that life may exist on planets that at first glance appear inhospitable.

None of the findings shout, "Here be aliens!" but each report has stoked optimism among astrobiologists that they ...

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