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Organics on Mars — What Does it Mean?
Organic compounds can form through simple chemistry alone — making the search for true biosignatures trickier than it seems. Posted on...
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Sep 181 min read
New Telescope to Probe for Alien Technosignatures
Posted on Big Think.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jun 141 min read
China's Moon Mission Could Reveal the Origins of Life on Earth
Posted on Big Think.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jun 17, 20241 min read
Why The "Goldilocks" Zone of Habitable Planets is Outdated When Searching for Life
Posted on Big Think.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
May 17, 20241 min read
Should We Send Messages to Aliens?
Posted on Big Think.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Apr 14, 20241 min read
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
Is There Life on the Icy Moons of our Solar System?
Posted on Big Think.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Feb 13, 20231 min read
Why We Need a Human Base on the Moon.
Posted on BigThink.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Nov 17, 20221 min read
Who – or What – Would Survive an All-Out Nuclear War?
Posted on Big Think.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Nov 3, 20221 min read
Can Humanity Handle Alien Contact and its Consequences?
Posted on Big Think
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jul 15, 20221 min read
On The Possibility of Silicon-Based Life
Posted on Big Think.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jul 2, 20221 min read
Death from Outer Space
Posted on Big Think
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jun 15, 20221 min read
Follow the Salt if You Want to Find Life on Mars
Posted on Big Think
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jun 3, 20221 min read
Could We All Be Martians?
Revisiting Panspermia: did life come from outside of Earth?
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jun 2, 20223 min read
How Common is Life in the Universe?
Posted on Big Think
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
May 31, 20221 min read
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
Alien Message to be Sent into Space
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Apr 29, 20221 min read
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
What Do Aliens Look Like?
We should not expect aliens to look anything like us.
Posted on Big Think.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Apr 13, 20221 min read
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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