September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... with our rockets. Rather, if we wish to find clever aliens, we must turn to worlds orbiting other stars. Investigations using ...anything of interest has developed on Earth. After all, the aliens could know that our planet has a rich oxygen atmosphere,...
24 September 2020
Alien Oceans - The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
... case, the author freely admits that a “childhood obsession with aliens” led him to study Europa; and as for writing a ..., the author takes us from what he justifiably calls “our own alien ocean” to the icy satellites most likely to harbour life. On ...
25 February 2019
Scientists create DNA-like molecule to aid search for alien life
...letter”), a team of US based researchers, have tested their ‘alien’ DNA and discovered that it not only reproduced the molecular ...the work could also prove useful in exploring how ‘alien’ complex molecules essential for life might arrange themselves. ...
25 June 2020
Giant ‘Exotica’ catalogue boosts search for alien life
... mere nanoseconds; and stars with excess infrared radiation that could conceivably be explained as waste heat from alien megastructures. 4) A control sample of sources not expected to produce positive results. Accompanying the catalogue is extensive...
15 October 2018
SETI partners with MeerKAT to search for alien life
... well as the Automated Planet Finder at Lick Observatory in California, USA, which searches for laser signals from alien civilisations. Last year the initiative launched a new collaboration with Jodrell Bank, Manchester, UK to conduct an independent...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... and intelligence elsewhere because they illuminate, hypothesise, and critique future contact between cultures (human and alien). Anthropocentrism - the idea that humans are at the centre, from technology to philosophy - both frustrates and informs...
