Life in Space - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

E.T. Art? Crop Circles Look 'Alien' from Space

September 20, 2017 | Article

Seen from space, these discs look more like modern art than potatoes.
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As Oceans Alkalized, Life Developed Bones and Shells

September 16, 2017 | Article

A critical feature of many multicellular lifeforms on Earth are hard, biological structures, such as animal bones and snail shells that are made from minerals.
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Was the Origin of Life a Fluke? Or Was It Physics?

August 30, 2017 | Article

Physical systems that are out of equilibrium may naturally produce self-replicating chemical reactions, one of the necessary steps in the origin of life.
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Mars Curiosity: Facts and Information

August 13, 2017 | Reference

The mission of the one-ton rover is to find out if Mars is, or was, capable of supporting life.
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Making Artificial Eclipses Using Spacecraft Might Help Us Find New Worlds

August 10, 2017 | Article

As the nation awaits the Great American Solar Eclipse on Aug. 21, Stanford's Space Rendezvous Laboratory is developing a system that uses orbiting spacecraft to produce eclipses.
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Life in the Saturn System? Cassini Has Shown It's Possible

August 07, 2017 | Article

The European-American Cassini spacecraft has found that three of Saturn's many moons likely host subsurface oceans and may be capable of supporting life.
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New 'Laser SETI' Approach Seeks Crowdfunding to Seek Out Alien Life

August 07, 2017 | Article

The best way to find laser flashes from an alien civilization is to look everywhere, all the time, and a new project aims to do just that.
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Detecting Alien Life Will Likely Be a Protracted Process, Not a Eureka Moment

July 28, 2017 | Article

Scientific discovery most often comes through incremental progress rather than epiphanies, and there’s no reason to suggest discovering alien intelligence will be different.
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