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China's Moon Mission Could Reveal the Origins of Life on Earth
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jun 17, 20241 min read
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Why The "Goldilocks" Zone of Habitable Planets is Outdated When Searching for Life
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
May 17, 20241 min read
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Should We Send Messages to Aliens?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Apr 14, 20241 min read
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Could Life Use Magnetic Fields as an Energy Source?
And if so, how would this hypothetical life form function?

Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jul 12, 20235 min read
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Is There Life on the Icy Moons of our Solar System?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Feb 13, 20231 min read
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Why We Need a Human Base on the Moon.
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Nov 17, 20221 min read
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Who – or What – Would Survive an All-Out Nuclear War?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Nov 3, 20221 min read
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Can Humanity Handle Alien Contact and its Consequences?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jul 15, 20221 min read
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On The Possibility of Silicon-Based Life
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jul 2, 20221 min read
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Death from Outer Space
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jun 15, 20221 min read
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Follow the Salt if You Want to Find Life on Mars
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jun 3, 20221 min read
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Could We All Be Martians?
Revisiting Panspermia: did life come from outside of Earth?

Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jun 2, 20223 min read
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How Common is Life in the Universe?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
May 31, 20221 min read
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A Recent Discovery Could Unravel the Mystery of Martian Methane
A Window to Life in the Deep Subsurface

Dirk Schulze-Makuch
May 11, 20222 min read
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Alien Message to be Sent into Space
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Apr 29, 20221 min read
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Three Myths of Planetary Protection
What’s First? A Life-Detection or a Human Mission to Mars?

Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Apr 28, 20223 min read
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What Do Aliens Look Like?
We should not expect aliens to look anything like us.
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Apr 13, 20221 min read
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Alien Life: What Would Constitute “Smoking Gun” Evidence?
Multiple lines of evidence must converge for scientists to conclude that alien life has been found.
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Mar 29, 20221 min read
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News from The German SETI Workshop
Be Prepared for Alien Contact

Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Mar 24, 20222 min read
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Science of Aliens, Part 11:
Could Aliens Get Cancer?

Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Mar 17, 20223 min read
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