A New Frontier Is Opening in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
The reason we haven’t found life elsewhere in the universe is simple: We haven’t really looked until now.
The Washington Post
Topics: Exoplanets Extraterrestrial Life Technology
Let’s Search for Alien Probes, Not Just Alien Signals
“Multimessenger” SETI would broaden the quest to find celestial companions.
Scientific American
Topics: Avi Loeb Extraterrestrial Life Technology
What Alien Life Could Teach Us About Humanity
Have we found extraterrestrial life but not recognized it?
Freethink
Topics: Extraterrestrial Life Origin of Life
Potential Signs of Life on Venus Are Fading as Astronomers Downgrade Their Original Claims
Amid mounting criticism, researchers find far lower levels of mysterious phosphine in reanalysis of telescope data.
Science
Topics: Extraterrestrial Life Planets
How Many Alien Civilizations Are Out There? A New Galactic Survey Holds a Clue
The Milky Way is full of habitable real estate, with roughly half of all sunlike stars hosting Earth-size worlds that could be friendly to life.
National Geographic
Topics: Exoplanets Extraterrestrial Life Habitability Stars
Promising Sign of Life on Venus Might Not Exist After All
The detection of phosphine gas in the clouds of Venus — a possible sign of life — might be due to a fluke in data processing, new analyses suggest.
Scientists Find Possible Sign Of Life On Venus
Traces of a gas in Venus’ clouds could indicate some form of life may exist there.
Axios
DNA Nearly a Billion Years Old Is Being Warped to Figure Out How Life Could Evolve on Other Planets
Betül Kaçar and her team studied what happened when E.coli cells were evolutionarily undone and then had to re-evolve.
SyFy Wire
Topics: Evolutionary Mechanisms Extraterrestrial Life Genetic Engineering Origin of Life Synthetic Life
3 Great Mysteries About Life on Mars
How habitable was early Mars? Why did it become less hospitable? And could there be life there now?
The New York Times
Topics: Extraterrestrial Life Habitability Mars
What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory
To recognize strange extraterrestrial life and solve biological mysteries on this planet, scientists are searching for an objective definition for life’s basic units.
Quanta Magazine
Topics: Evolutionary Theory Extraterrestrial Life Information Origin of Life
An Audacious Explanation for Fast Radio Bursts
It’s a long shot, but could at least some of these energy blasts from across the universe come from extraterrestrial civilizations?
Topics: Avi Loeb Extraterrestrial Life Galaxies Universe
Life on Earth Is a Sketchy Guide to an Alien Civilization
Any assumptions about properties like intelligence or agency that we make based on what we currently know about life on Earth are on exceedingly shaky ground.
Nautilus
Topics: Caleb Scharf Extraterrestrial Life
Scientists Move to Find Alien Civilizations Using “Technosignatures”
There are specific marks on a planet that intelligent life may leave. To find technological civilizations among the stars, we just need to know what to look for.
Forbes
Is Anybody Down There?
Paul Davies makes the case for looking Earthward.
Cosmos
Topics: Extraterrestrial Life Technology
Planets With Hydrogen-Rich Atmospheres Could Harbor Life
Lab experiments show that yeast and E. coli survive and reproduce in hydrogen-rich conditions.
Science News
Topics: Exoplanets Extraterrestrial Life Habitability
It Takes a Cosmos to Make a Human
To speak with Jill Tarter is to begin to grasp the creative majesty of SETI and what’s relevant now in the ancient question: “Are we alone in the universe?”
On Being
Quantum SETI
Vast data sets and machine learning could link SETI to quantum computing
Life Unbounded, Scientific American
Could a Habitable Planet Orbit a Black Hole?
Theorists say it’s technically possible, but it would be a weird place to live.
Topics: Black Holes Extraterrestrial Life Habitability
AI and the Future of Your Mind
Philosopher Susan Schneider discusses some of the complexities surrounding the development of artificial intelligence.
UConn Today
Topics: Consciousness Extraterrestrial Life Technology Transhumanism
Can the Universe Provide Us with the Meaning of Life?
Astronomy and space exploration might offer a new perspective on our purpose in the cosmos.
Topics: Avi Loeb Extraterrestrial Life Meaning Purpose Universe
Astronomers Race to Study Mysterious Fast Radio Burst Detected in a Nearby Galaxy
The bizarre phenomenon of fast radio bursts could originate in supernovae, magnetars, or even alien civilizations.
Salon
Topics: Avi Loeb Extraterrestrial Life Galaxies
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