August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
... the use of radio telescopes in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Addendum Can something as culturally specific and speculative as the socio-cultural implications of extraterrestrial life be quantified? Now, I present another...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... turned out to be wrong thanks to new observations The search for exoplanets is a field of research that has shown the ... forward to future ambitious projects in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. About the author Tomonori Totani is an astrophysicist...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
...present not only on many smaller celestial bodies, but also in interstellar space. The scientific search for extraterrestrial life, known as astrobiology, has developed recently into an important international and interdisciplinary research programme...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... planetary protection - protecting the Earth (i.e. humanity) upon return of the astronauts and avoiding compromising the search for extraterrestrial life. Clearly, human missions are different from robotic missions. NASA and other space agencies have...
15 October 2018
SETI partners with MeerKAT to search for alien life
...and Medicine suggests that NASA also needs to ramp up efforts in developing mission-ready life detection technologies to further the search for extraterrestrial life. So far, says the report, NASA’s planetary exploration missions have tended to focus...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
...basic information that is needed to gain an understanding of planet formation, which is an important ingredient of the search for extraterrestrial life. For example, researchers have previously shown that the delivery of water to an Earth-like planet...
