Planet with life beyond Pluto? The recent discovery of a 500km wide icy planet beyond Pluto replete with an atmosphere raises the question of the possibility of primitive live in the planet’s thin atmosphere. With the near certainty of cometary bodies colliding with this planet, and such comets carrying primitive life as Hoyle and I have argued, we may well be looking here at a life-bearing comet in the outskirts of our solar system. In the fulness of time evidence of microbial life in watery niches of this planet may well be discovered. 📷\📷 newscientist.com/article/252…

Over the past few months the discovery of the “building blocks of life” including sugars and nucleotide bases recently been reported in asteroids. This adds to earlier reports of the detection of the biomolecule dimethyl sulphide in an exoplanet. To infer that these discoveries confirm the primordial soup theory is not, however, justified and not supported by the evidence. The correct inference in my view that life is a cosmic phenomenon and is widely present in the universe..(profchandra.org)

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Comment on “Cosmic Dragons – Life and death on our planet – Chandra Wickramasinghe” (Souvenir Press London, 2001): “Bohr is reported to have said to a fellow scientist We all agree your theory is crazy – but we don’t think it’s crazy enough to be true.” Well, I think that Chandra’s theory is crazy enough to be true, and I am more and more convinced now that life has spread throughout the universe probably by the very mechanism he proposes.” Arthur C. Clarke. 25 years on, in 2026, hot news: · Biomolecules in an alien planet hundreds of light years away · Bio-sugars in an asteroid · Universe older than the Big Bang? ACC and Chandra were right! And ACC the great prophet of the Future was right so many times before! youtu.be/YwELr8ir9qM?si=wVWI…

📷 The recent discovery of sugars in samples of the asteroid Bennu and its astrobiological implications published recently in the journal Nature comes nearly 5 decades after the first discussions of sugars, polysaccharides and other biomolecules in interstellar space (Furukawa, Y., Sunami, S., Takano, Y. et al. Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu. Nat. Geosci. 19, 19–24 (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-0…). The lack of reference to this earlier work seems typical of modern etiquette and morality 1. Polysaccharides and the infrared spectra of galactic sources”, F. Hoyle and N.C. Wickramasinghe, Nature, 268, 610, 1977 2. “Prebiotic polymers and infrared spectra of galactic sources”, N.C. Wickramasinghe, F. Hoyle, J. Brooks, and G. Shaw, Nature, 269, 674, 1977 3. “Identification of the 2200A interstellar absorption feature”, F.Hoyle and N.C. Wickramasinghe, Nature, 270, 323, 1977 4. “Origin and nature of carbonaceous material in the galaxy”, F.Hoyle and N.C. Wickramasinghe, Nature, 270, 701,1977 5. “Identification of interstellar polysaccharides and related hydrocarbons”, F. Hoyle, N.C. Wickramasinghe and A.H. Olavesen, Nature, 271, 229,1978

Whilst the idea of a Comet 3I-Atlas being an alien spaceship, my concern is about the extreme longevity of a super-alien civilisation not just to launch the project, but also to continue a surveillance strategy for over a millennium. In modern human society maintaining a pre-arranged project for over 2 electoral cycles verges on a miracle! assets.science.nasa.gov/dyna…

Comet 3I/Atlas exuding biochemicals. A living comet rather than mythical prebiology!

News of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS carrying methanol and biochemicals points to life - fermentation products- rather than a mystical prebiology. skyatnightmagazine.com/news/… Thumbs up for panspermia!

News of interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas carrying methanol and biochemicals point to life - fermentation products- rather than a mystical prebiology. https:newscientist.com/article/250… Thumbs up for panspermia!

Sugars, polysaccharides, not just in asteroids youtube.com/watch?v=9LyH6jTe… but also in space from the 1970's: “Polysaccharides and the infrared spectra of galactic sources”, F. Hoyle and N.C. Wickramasinghe, Nature, 268, 610, 1977

Lifecloud - origins youtu.be/_TdP_P0Q5Mw?si=RrCB… via @YouTube

📷Kordilewski clouds may well yield its secrets to the powerful interferometric triad of radio telescopes Sri Lanka-Scotland-Chile in the Tanlaw Global observatory…. robert-temple.com/articles/A… island.lk/intelligent-dust-c…

Just returned from celebrating the lives of Fred and Geoff Hoyle at St John's College, Cambridge. Our modern ideas about cosmic dust in the 1960’s – from ice grains to carbonaceous organic dust were shaped through my commuting between 12 Chapel Court Jesus College and Fred Hoyle’s residence at 1 Clarkson Close, Cambridge.

Ever since Gil Levin and Pat Straat’s iconic experiments on the Viking landers of 1976 the case for life on Mars has become compelling. Recent claims that a sample from “Cheyava Falls” collected by NASA’s Perseverance Rover carries biosignatures are no surprise. Life is everywhere and takes root whenever the right conditions prevail. (Pic by Barry DiGregorio)

Black cloud may have come alive in the form of Kordylewski clouds - see a recent paper with Robert Temple: island.lk/intelligent-dust-c…

The comet 3I/ATLAS entered our solar system from the depths of interstellar space and will return there after shedding a tail of debris that Earth might pick up. A reminder of our inexorable connection, perhaps a biological connection, with the vast external Universe. skyatnightmagazine.com/astro…

Evidence for panspermia, implying comets are life-spreaders in the cosmos has grown enormously in recent months. The recent discovery of a new comet from deep space is further compelling proof of the Hoyle-Wickramasinghe panspermia theory: space.com/astronomy/comets/n…

The sad passing of my colleague and dear friend Jayant Narlikar marks the end of an era in cosmology when orthodox views could be bravely and honestly challenged. All the indications from new data point to an age of the universe far in excess of the Big-Bang age of 13.7 billion years, perhaps even be of infinite age. Narlikar’s life-time work, starting with his long collaboration with Fred Hoyle is now closer to vindication than ever before.