‘Little green men hiding in your stomach’: Scientists may have found the key to alien life
Produced by: Manoj Kumar
Hidden Martians
The first extraterrestrial life we find may not be little green men—but microbes lurking beneath alien ice or deep in toxic clouds.
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Extreme Survivors
Life on Earth thrives in boiling springs, acidic lakes, and deep-sea trenches—proving it could survive on distant worlds too.
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Ocean Moons
Europa and Enceladus hide vast underground oceans—could they be home to alien microbes, just like Earth’s deep-sea vents?
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Living in Acid
Bacteria like H. pylori survive in stomach acid—suggesting life could endure the brutal environments of Venus or Mars.
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Solar System Hope
Beyond Mars, Saturn’s and Jupiter’s moons offer our best chance to find extraterrestrial microbes hiding beneath icy crusts.
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The Bacteria Revolution
Before Yellowstone’s hot springs revealed heat-loving microbes, we thought life needed mild conditions—what else are we wrong about?
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The Stomach Martians
Scientists once believed life couldn’t exist in extreme acidity—until they found H. pylori thriving inside us.
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The LUCA Hunt
Scientists are searching for life’s first ancestor, LUCA, beyond Earth—could its relatives be hiding on distant exoplanets?
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Martian Microbes?
5,500+ exoplanets have been discovered, some potentially habitable—but would their life look like ours or something stranger?
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