extraterrestrial life
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Supernovae might be a good place to hunt for alien broadcasts
Other intelligent civilisations may send transmissions after a bright galactic event like a supernova to make them more visible to…
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Up to 74% of planets in the ‘habitable zone’ may not be good for life
Many planets that have the right temperatures for liquid water on their surfaces used to be too hot or too…
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Why the Search for Life in Space Starts With Ancient Earth
Next, they’ll use the spectrograph to try to find key molecules like oxygen or methane. How much they find of…
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LIGO may be able to detect alien warp drives using gravitational waves
If aliens were to make spacecraft as massive as Jupiter or ones that use warp drives, we might be able…
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The Legendary Frank Drake Shaped the Search for Alien Life
Frank Drake, a leading figure in planetary astronomy and astrobiology who inspired the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, died…
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Pairs of giant planets may make their star systems ultra-habitable
Simulations of more than 140,000 possible planetary systems show that pairs of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn may make…
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Could Life Use a Longer Genetic Code? Maybe, but It’s Unlikely
As wildly diverse as life on Earth is—whether it’s a jaguar hunting down a deer in the Amazon, an orchid…
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Scientists Want to Probe Uranus With a New Spacecraft
For the past couple of decades, NASA has been investing in spacecraft to conduct up-close examinations of Mercury, Venus, Mars,…
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Get Ready for a Decade of Uranus Jokes
For the past couple of decades, NASA has been investing in spacecraft to conduct up-close examinations of Mercury, Venus, Mars,…
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