{"id":106642,"date":"2020-05-06T08:03:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/alien-life-might-thrive-on-super-earths-made-of-pure-hydrogen"},"modified":"2020-05-06T08:03:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:03:25","slug":"alien-life-might-thrive-on-super-earths-made-of-pure-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/alien-life-might-thrive-on-super-earths-made-of-pure-hydrogen","title":{"rendered":"Alien life might thrive on \u2018super-Earths\u2019 made of pure hydrogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2015\/12\/01\/1218086974240541442\/1024x576_1218086974240541442.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Professor Sara Seager from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) believes astronomers should broaden their horizons as they scan the cosmos for life.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u2018Microbes can survive and grow in a 100 percent hydrogen atmosphere. We should expand the types of planets we consider worth searching.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The award winning astrophysicist, 48, led research published today in <a class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-020-1069-4\">Nature Astronomy<\/a> which found E.coli and yeast survived and grew in pure hydrogen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Sara Seager from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) believes astronomers should broaden their horizons as they scan the cosmos for life. She said: \u2018Microbes can survive and grow in a 100 percent hydrogen atmosphere. We should expand the types of planets we consider worth searching.\u2019 The award winning astrophysicist, 48, led research published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}