{"id":111953,"date":"2020-08-26T15:14:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/the-astrobiology-of-alien-worlds"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:25:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:25:19","slug":"the-astrobiology-of-alien-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/the-astrobiology-of-alien-worlds","title":{"rendered":"The Astrobiology of Alien Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-astrobiology-of-alien-worlds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A comprehensive review of life as we know it\u2014and may not know it.<\/p>\n<p>In a new paper just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2218-1997\/6\/9\/130\/htm\">published in the journal <em>Universe<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> Louis Irwin and I attempt to sum up scientists\u2019 current understanding of life \u201cas we know it,\u201d and speculate how life may look and function on alien planets and moons. That includes potential biospheres very different from our own, such as a rocky planet with an ice-covered global ocean. Or it might be a barren planet devoid of surface liquids, or a frigid world with abundant liquid hydrocarbons. It could even be a rogue planet with no \u201chost\u201d star, a tidally locked planet, or a so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super-Earth\">Super-Earth<\/a>. Maybe the biosphere exists only in the planet\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comprehensive review of life as we know it\u2014and may not know it. In a new paper just published in the journal Universe, Louis Irwin and I attempt to sum up scientists\u2019 current understanding of life \u201cas we know it,\u201d and speculate how life may look and function on alien planets and moons. That includes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111953","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\/593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111957,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111953\/revisions\/111957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}