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# space
With the successful launch and deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope, a lot of researchers and science enthusiasts are wondering if it could actually help us find alien life.
# astrobiology
A popular thought among experts thinking about alien life is that any intelligent life we discover in space will be artificial. But how realistic is this notion?
# podcast
As scientists search for evidence of life on other worlds in our solar system and beyond, they’re starting to ask how to define life in the first place.
# space
Water usually means life. But could too much water snuff out life before it has a chance to evolve?
# astrobiology
An immensely powerful flare from a tiny red dwarf is helping us understand just how important these stars can be to giving life across the universe to chance to develop.
# astrobiology
A star named V883 Ori is going through a growth spurt, and as it does, it’s showing us just how abundant the building blocks of life might be throughout the universe.
# astrobiology
A pair of researchers propose that a simpler molecule used in photosynthesis by ancient bacteria may have been widespread on early Earth and could be prevalent on alien worlds.
# astrobiology
A new idea in the search for intelligent alien life argues that we should focus on aliens that could see us too.
# space
Enceladus is starting to look like a better and better place to look for aliens with Cassini's every pass.
# oddities
A new conspiracy book thinks it has a slam dunk argument for why humans were genetically engineers by aliens.