As space agencies and private companies look toward a sustained human presence on the moon, a fundamental challenge centers ...
The SETI Institute’s new Discovery and Futures Lab is expanding the search for life beyond Earth, uniting science, ethics, ...
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Researchers propose a broader new way to detect life beyond Earth
A single alien world can be misleading. A strange gas in an atmosphere might look promising, then turn out to come from ...
Canary Islands musician Juan Mesa, Tibetan flutist Nawang Khechog and Maui guitarist Jeff Peterson are collaborating to send music to other planets. Courtesy photo On a mission to contact other ...
The traditional habitable zone is shown by the diagonal orange stripe. Its distance from the host star (horizontal axis, in Astronomical Units) increases with luminosity, which increases with the mass ...
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When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...
Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) and National Institute for Basic Biology have developed a new method ...
Are we alone in the universe? Are we alone in the universe? The search for exoplanets—planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system—is helping scientists get closer to an answer. From hot Jupiters to ...
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