What kind of signals are we searching for from aliens? What are technosignatures and biosignatures? How are we looking for non-intelligent life? Is there any hope of finding life in our own solar system? I
Sep 10th: Galactic Panspermia
If spacecraft, rovers or even astronauts make the momentous discovery of life on another world, that’ll just open up new questions. Did it originate all on its own, completely independently from Earth, or are we somehow related?
Jul 9th: Planetary Protection: What If We Destroy Life Before We Even Find It?
Wherever we go, life goes with us, whether we want it to or not. And when we travel to other worlds, it looks like the most extreme life Earth has ever cooked up is ready and willing to make the journey with us.
Jan 30th: Betrayed By The Red Edge!
Betrayed By The Red Edge. How We Can Find People are always worried that alien civilizations will detect the transmissions from our old radio shows and television broadcasts, and send in the invasion fleet. But the reality is that life itself has been broadcasting the existence of life on Earth for 500 million years.
Dec 30th: Through A Glass, Cheaply
Jan 2nd: What’ll It Take to Find Life?
We know there’s life on Earth, and our atmosphere tells the tale, so can we do the same thing with extrasolar planets?
Mar 27th: Life & Death in Space
Feb 27th: Could Life Exist on One of Saturn’s Moons?
Jan 18th: JPL’s Annual Invention Challenge
We just discovered a planetary disc that rolled over! And There’s life on the Moon! Thanks’ to chang’e 4.
Jul 5th: The Drake Anti-Equation
Are we alone? Is there another life out there? This is a question we have been search for answers for so many centuries. How’s the chance for life out there?