Wide Angle: Extreme Life
On Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010, The Science Channel will air a special presentation of "Through the Wormhole: How Did We Get Here?" at 8 pm E/P.
NASA's Dec. 2 announcement of a lab-altered, arsenic-eating bacteria has transformed our understanding of just how extreme life can get. It has also widened our horizons in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Explore this special Wide Angle to get the scoop on this newly discovered life form and what efforts are under way to find its extraterrestrial cousins.-
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New Life Form Lives on Arsenic
The lab-altered bacteria widens the scope for finding life on other worlds.
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Earth's Extreme Life Knows No Bounds
Manipulating microbes shows need to redefine life on Earth, again.
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Microbial Star Trekkers Survive 553 Days in Space
As a sample of microbes survive a record-breaking stint in space, could they aid our space-faring dreams?
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Top 10 Places To Find Alien Life
Just because we haven't found life, doesn't mean we don't have our theories for where life might be hiding.
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Bacteria Survive Millennia Nibbling on Salad
Salty bacteria in California's Death Valley apparently require very little sustenance to survive millennia.
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Titan: Oasis For Life As We Don't Know It?
Titan could turn out to be our first and perhaps only example where life -- as we do not know it -- exists.
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Template for Life on Mars Found
A shallow spring in Canada holds a type of bacteria that could thrive on Mars.
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Are We Alone in the Universe? (Podcast)
Discovery News Space producer Ian O'Neill was invited on a CRI English radio show to talk about all things ET. Seth Shostak (SETI Institute) and Douglas C. Lin (Peking University) were also there to give an expert opinion.
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The Scent of a Titan: Stinky
If life does exist on Saturn's moon, let's hope future space explorers don't beam it up. According to astrobiologist William Bains, Titan life might be a wee bit stinky. And explosive.
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Wide Angle: Life's Origins
Earth was hardly a hospitable place when life began billions of years ago.
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