{"id":12615,"date":"2014-11-26T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12615"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:10:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:10:23","slug":"astronauts-just-found-life-in-outer-space-and-scientists-arent-sure-how-it-got-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/astronauts-just-found-life-in-outer-space-and-scientists-arent-sure-how-it-got-there","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts Just Found Life In Outer Space \u2014 And Scientists Aren\u2019t Sure How It Got There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a class=\"link-author\" title=\"Zak Cheney-Rice's Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/mic.com\/profiles\/29788\/zak-cheney-rice\">Zak Cheney-Rice<\/a> <time datetime=\"2014-08-21T16:07-04:00\"><\/time> \u2014 News.Mic<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>The news:<\/b> Russian cosmonauts have discovered something remarkable clinging to the outside of the International Space Station: living organisms.<\/p>\n<p>The microscopic creatures appeared during a space walk intended to clean the vessel\u2019s surface, and were allegedly identified \u2014 incredibly \u2014 as a type of sea plankton. This is big: According to <i><a href=\"http:\/\/sploid.gizmodo.com\/space-station-cosmonauts-find-life-in-the-vacuum-of-spa-1624978001?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&amp;utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow\">Sploid<\/a><\/i>, Russian scientists are both \u201cshocked by [the] discovery and can\u2019t really explain how [it] is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResults of the experiment are absolutely unique,\u201d Russian ISS Orbital Mission Chief Vladimir Solovyev <a href=\"http:\/\/en.itar-tass.com\/non-political\/745635\">told<\/a> the ITAR-TASS News Agency. \u201cThis should be studied further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/96920\/astronauts-just-found-life-in-outer-space-and-scientists-aren-t-sure-how-it-got-there\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zak Cheney-Rice \u2014 News.Mic The news: Russian cosmonauts have discovered something remarkable clinging to the outside of the International Space Station: living organisms. The microscopic creatures appeared during a space walk intended to clean the vessel\u2019s surface, and were allegedly identified \u2014 incredibly \u2014 as a type of sea plankton. This is big: According [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12615","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46753,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12615\/revisions\/46753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}