Scientists Designed a Virtual Alien Lifeform to Hunt for Extraterrestrials

Scientists Designed a Virtual Alien Lifeform to Hunt for Extraterrestrials

🌘Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Scientists have designed a virtual model of an alien cell and dropped it onto a hypothetical exoplanet to see how it behaves, an approach that could help astronomers recognize signs of extraterrestrial life on distant worlds, according to a recent study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical…