{"id":199058,"date":"2024-11-09T05:23:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/could-alien-life-thrive-without-a-home-planet-study-suggests-self-sustaining-habitats-may-be-possible-beyond-earth"},"modified":"2024-11-09T05:23:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:23:24","slug":"could-alien-life-thrive-without-a-home-planet-study-suggests-self-sustaining-habitats-may-be-possible-beyond-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/could-alien-life-thrive-without-a-home-planet-study-suggests-self-sustaining-habitats-may-be-possible-beyond-earth","title":{"rendered":"Could Alien Life Thrive Without a Home Planet? Study Suggests Self-Sustaining Habitats May Be Possible Beyond Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-alien-life-thrive-without-a-home-planet-study-suggests-self-sustaining-habitats-may-be-possible-beyond-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, Dr. Robin Wordsworth of Harvard University and Dr. Charles S. Cockell of the University of Edinburgh argue that this focus has left unexplored possibilities for life in environments that don\u2019t resemble our own.<\/p>\n<p>In a preprint paper accepted for publication in the journal Astrobiology, researchers challenge conventional assumptions about extraterrestrial life and explore the feasibility of life existing in structures created by living organisms themselves.<\/p>\n<p>As researchers suggest, life-supporting conditions created solely by biological structures could indeed exist, making it entirely possible for some forms of life to thrive in space habitats vastly different from those on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, Dr. Robin Wordsworth of Harvard University and Dr. Charles S. Cockell of the University of Edinburgh argue that this focus has left unexplored possibilities for life in environments that don\u2019t resemble our own. In a preprint paper accepted for publication in the journal Astrobiology, researchers challenge conventional assumptions about extraterrestrial life and explore the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199058","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}