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Mass extinctions on Earth can help us find alien life in the cosmos. Here's how
By Conor Feehly last updated
The history of life on Earth offers clues to aid the search for complex life elsewhere in the cosmos.
Some of Uranus' moons might be able to support life. Here's what a mission might reveal
By Conor Feehly published
"The most exciting prospect at the (Uranian) moons is that they could still host subsurface oceans at present.”
'We are close:' SETI astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol on the search for life
By Leonard David published
Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol seeks answers to two key questions: Are we alone in the universe? How did life on Earth begin in the first place?
Life on alien planets probably wouldn't experience day and night – here's how that may change evolution
By Maureen Cohen published
Organisms on Earth living deep underground or at the bottom of the sea may give us an idea what alien life without a circadian rhythm could be like.
How AI is helping us search the universe for alien technosignatures
By Conor Feehly published
"It's now a part of mainstream astrophysics."
Belief in alien visits to Earth is spiraling out of control – here's why that's so dangerous
By Tony Milligan published
Belief in alien visitors is no longer a quirk, but a widespread societal problem. This belief is slightly paradoxical as we have zero evidence that aliens even exist.
SETI searches for alien life in over 1,000 galaxies using unexplored radio frequencies
By Keith Cooper published
New findings could elevate SETI into an extragalactic search for life beyond Earth.
Are we alone? Intelligent aliens may be rare, new study suggests
By Keith Cooper published
A new interpretation of the famous Drake equation finds little reason to be optimistic about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Planets of Milky Way's most common stars are less habitable than thought, dead NASA telescope reveals
By Robert Lea published
Planets orbiting red dwarf stars may have a harder time hanging on to the conditions needed for life to arise and survive than previously thought, data from NASA's dead space telescope GALEX reveals.
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