The Conversation

‘Project Hail Mary’ explores unique forms of life in space – 5 essential reads on searching for aliens that look nothing like life on Earth

Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide their search for life in the universe. While it’s most convenient to start looking for life using the knowledge that ...
New York Post

Building blocks of life detected on 3I/ATLAS — scientists say it could be an interstellar ‘gardener’ seeding the cosmos

Is 3I/ATLAS just a comet — or an intergalactic ark? A NASA spacecraft has discovered organic chemicals on 3I/ATLAS, which Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims raises the possibility that the comet is an ...
The Conversation

Are aliens real? Scientists have been hunting for extraterrestrial life since the time of Aristotle

Do aliens exist? Could Earth really be the only planet hosting intelligent life? Debates over the existence of extraterrestrials date back to the earliest Indigenous and western thought. The tools ...