What do coal, crude oil, and truffles have in common? Go ahead. We'll wait. The answer is thiophenes, a molecule…
The title of Earth's Earliest Life has been returned to the fossils in the Pilbara region of Australia. The Pilbara…
People are always worried that alien civilizations will detect the transmissions from our old radio shows and television broadcasts, and…
The ‘Language in the Cosmos’ symposium Three times in October, 2017 researchers turned a powerful radar telescope near Tromsø, Norway…
Is there any way we can hope to communicate with aliens? Will they have a concept of language as we…
Kurzgesagt just released a new video all about the Great Filter. It's great, and it's unsettling.
When astronomers scan the atmospheres of other worlds, they’ll be looking for gases to confirm that yes, indeed, there’s life…
Researchers at McGill University are developing what they call the Life Detection Platform, a compact, robotic, energy-efficient system for detecting…
It seems that every few months or so, breathless claims surface on the internet that NASA is about to make…
While we're searching the Universe for evidence of life, we should consider places in our own Solar System where ancient…