{"id":88074,"date":"2019-02-22T04:02:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/new-nasa-team-tackles-next-challenges-in-detecting-life-beyond-earth"},"modified":"2019-02-22T04:02:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:02:33","slug":"new-nasa-team-tackles-next-challenges-in-detecting-life-beyond-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/new-nasa-team-tackles-next-challenges-in-detecting-life-beyond-earth","title":{"rendered":"New NASA Team Tackles Next Challenges in Detecting Life Beyond Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-nasa-team-tackles-next-challenges-in-detecting-life-beyond-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The question, \u201cAre we alone?\u201d has been a subject of speculation for centuries. The answer may soon lie within the grasp of science.<\/p>\n<p>Decades of research have led scientists to look deeply into the nature of life itself \u2014 what it is, how it began on Earth, and what other worlds might also support it. A shift in focus is now emerging as scientists recognize that with a strategic push the possibility of detecting life beyond Earth could be on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>To support NASA\u2019s growing emphasis on detecting life beyond Earth, NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California\u2019s Silicon Valley has established the Center for Life Detection Science. CLDS brings together a diverse group of researchers at Ames and NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland to tackle the next set of challenges science must overcome to be able to one day detect life beyond Earth.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/ames\/new-nasa-team-tackles-next-challenges-in-detecting-life-beyond-earth\/\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/ames\/new-nasa-team-tackles-next...ond-earth\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question, \u201cAre we alone?\u201d has been a subject of speculation for centuries. The answer may soon lie within the grasp of science. Decades of research have led scientists to look deeply into the nature of life itself \u2014 what it is, how it began on Earth, and what other worlds might also support it. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88074","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\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}