Tag: extraterrestrial life

The Search for ET Has an X-Factor: the Evolution of Stars

Stephen Kane was searching for stars that could host planets with warm, temperate climates hospitable to life—you know, like Earth—when he glimpsed a young...

This Is How Aliens Might Search for Human Life

In the search for extraterrestrial life, we’re usually the ones doing the snooping. But Lisa Kaltenegger, an astronomer at Cornell University, wanted to...

Rocket Lab Could Beat NASA Back to Venus in the Search for ET

But Venus is a particularly hostile destination. On the surface, temperatures are hot enough to melt lead, and the atmospheric pressures are intense. Things...

A Ball of Bacteria Survived for 3 Years … in Space!

In 2018, a spacecraft departed the International Space Station carrying unusual cargo: colonies of bacteria that had spent years hanging out in space. These...

How to Watch NASA Launch Its New Perseverance Mars Rover

Hitting the atmosphere will also put an enormous amount of strain on the heat shield; it will experience pressures equivalent to being sat on...

The Trouble With Counting Aliens

But “as far as we know” is exactly the problem with the Drake equation. The number of communicating alien civilizations in our galaxy is...

Does It Matter That the DOD Released Those UFO Videos?

On Monday, the US Department of Defense officially released three videos depicting encounters between Navy pilots and unidentified aerial phenomena. These events occurred...

SETI@Home Is Over. But the Search for Alien Life Continues

Over the last 20 years, the army of SETI@home screensavers has parsed billions of signals collected at Arecibo and selected those that seemed...

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