If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have identified just under 50 rocky worlds most likely to be habitable out of ...
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Alien life could look nothing like what we expect. Here's how microbes beyond Earth might live without liquid water
Every known living thing on Earth needs water. The life-giving liquid makes up around 60 percent of each human’s body weight, ...
“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was released in March 2026 to stellar ratings from ...
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The best place to find alien life may not be a planet at all
For years, the search for alien life has focused on Earth-like planets orbiting distant stars. But this episode explores a ...
What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?
Assembly Theory shifts the search for life from identifying specific molecules to measuring chemical complexity, offering a ...
This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which ...
Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.
In March 2026, SETI Institute researchers contributed to a wide range of conversations about our solar system and the search ...
New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.
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