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LIFE BEYOND EARTH
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When And Where Did Life Really Begin?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Feb 51 min read
A Promising Way to Detect Alien Life
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jan 171 min read
The Dark Side of Alien Contact
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Oct 31, 20241 min read
Follow The Salt to Find Life on Mars
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Oct 2, 20241 min read
Finding Caves on the Moon is Great. On Mars? Even Better.
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Aug 14, 20241 min read
Extreme Dormancy as a Way to Survive on Earth and (Possibly) on Alien Planets
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jul 1, 20241 min read
China's Moon Mission Could Reveal the Origins of Life on Earth
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jun 17, 20241 min read
Why The "Goldilocks" Zone of Habitable Planets is Outdated When Searching for Life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
Should We Send Messages to Aliens?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Apr 14, 20241 min read
Could our First Alien Contact be with Intelligent Spiders?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Apr 10, 20241 min read
How to get Mars Exploration Back on Track
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Feb 12, 20241 min read
A New Take on the Fermi Paradox: Where are the Aliens?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jan 24, 20241 min read
Using AI to Search for Extraterrestrial Life
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Oct 27, 20231 min read
How to Prove an Alien is Alien?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Oct 8, 20231 min read
Detecting a “Living Pulse” in Microbes is a First Step Toward Discovering a Universal Biosignature
When can we call something alive? This question is more difficult than you may think and has far-reaching practical implications.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Aug 29, 20234 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
We Might Have Accidentally Killed The Only Life We Ever Found on Mars Nearly 50 Years Ago
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jun 27, 20231 min read
A New Earth-Sized, Volcanic Planet is a Good Candidate for Harboring Life
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jun 9, 20231 min read
Is There a Planet Out There Even Better than Earth?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
May 24, 20231 min read
Humanity’s Long-Term Survival Requires Space Colonization.
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
May 23, 20231 min read
The Hunt for Life in the Alpha Centauri System
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
May 4, 20231 min read
Why Aliens are Likely to be AI
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Apr 21, 20231 min read
Adapting to Alien Places may not be a Big Problem for Life. Ask Any of These Strange Creatures!
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Mar 17, 20231 min read
How Will The World End?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Mar 13, 20231 min read
How False Positives Impact the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Feb 21, 20231 min read
Is There Life on the Icy Moons of our Solar System?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Feb 13, 20231 min read
A New Hope for Solving the Fermi Paradox?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jan 20, 20231 min read
Io, an Overlooked Target for Astrobiology
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jan 13, 20231 min read
What Sort of Ethics Would Aliens Practice?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Dec 20, 20221 min read
How to Make Alien Life Come Out of Hiding.
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Dec 15, 20221 min read
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