{"id":34726,"date":"2017-02-20T22:04:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T06:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/this-dwarf-planet-has-lifes-building-blocks-nasa-probe-shows"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:50:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:50:41","slug":"this-dwarf-planet-has-lifes-building-blocks-nasa-probe-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/this-dwarf-planet-has-lifes-building-blocks-nasa-probe-shows","title":{"rendered":"This dwarf planet has life\u2019s building blocks, NASA probe shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-dwarf-planet-has-lifes-building-blocks-nasa-probe-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dwarf planet Ceres keeps looking better and better as a possible home for alien life.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/33935-dwarf-planet-ceres-probably-has-ice-volcano-nasa-dawn-mission-reveals-video.html\">Dawn spacecraft<\/a> has spotted organic molecules \u2014 the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it \u2014 on Ceres for the first time, a study published today (Feb. 16) in the journal Science reports.<\/p>\n<p>And these organics appear to be native, likely forming on Ceres rather than arriving via asteroid or comet strikes, study team members said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/space\/dwarf-planet-has-life-s-building-blocks-nasa-probe-shows-n722381?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma\">http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/space\/dwarf-planet-has-life-s-bu...d_nn_fb_ma<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dwarf planet Ceres keeps looking better and better as a possible home for alien life. NASA\u2019s Dawn spacecraft has spotted organic molecules \u2014 the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it \u2014 on Ceres for the first time, a study published today (Feb. 16) in the journal Science reports. And these organics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34726","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48801,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34726\/revisions\/48801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}