search for alien life

Top 10 questions I’d ask an alien from the Galactic Federation 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 11, 2020
Talking to E.T. would be the interview of a lifetime

By David Aragorn
Alien life in our Solar System: 5 best places to look 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 10, 2020
A fleet of missions is spreading across the Solar System to investigate our neighbours for signs of life. Here’s what they are looking for.

By David Aragorn
Planets with many neighbors may be the best places to look for life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 20, 2020
Single exoplanets with wild orbits hint at a chaotic past

By David Aragorn
How many alien civilizations are out there? A new galactic survey holds a clue.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 5, 2020
The Milky Way is full of habitable real estate, with roughly half of all sunlike stars hosting Earth-size worlds that could be friendly to life.

By David Aragorn
Earth could be seen by alien civilisations on nearby exoplanets, scientists find 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 24, 2020
Earth could be visible to alien civilisations on planets outside our solar system, scientists have found.

By David Aragorn
Planets more hospitable to life than Earth may already have been discovered 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 10, 2020
At least two dozen planets outside the solar system might be better for life than Earth.

By David Aragorn
Microbial Life on Venus? Here’s What You Really Need to Know About The Major Discovery 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 14, 2020
Venus, the Evening Star, may gleam prettily in our night sky, but up close it’s about as inhospitable as a rocky planet can be, with sulphuric acid rains, a suffocating CO2 atmosphere, and a surface atmospheric pressure up to 100 times greater than Earth’s.

By David Aragorn
Across 10 Million Stars, Not a Single Whisper of Alien Technology 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 9, 2020
In a comprehensive search of a patch of the Southern sky, not even a hint of alien technology has been detected at low radio frequencies.

By David Aragorn
Are aliens hiding in plain sight?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 8, 2020
Several missions this year are seeking out life on the red planet. But would we recognise extraterrestrials if we found them?

By David Aragorn
New Study Expands Breakthrough Listen Initiative’s Search for Intelligent Life 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- September 4, 2020
In a new study to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a research team led by University of Manchester astronomers extended a sample of 1,327 stellar systems recently observed by the Breakthrough Listen Initiative by including additional 288,315 stars that also reside within the target fields of the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope in Australia — increasing the number of stars analyzed by a factor of more than 200. Their results suggest that less than 0.04% of stellar systems have the potential of hosting advanced civilizations with the equivalent or slightly more advanced radio technology than 21st century humans.

By David Aragorn