Astrobiology
Weekly Space Hangout – June 10, 2016: Dr. Chris McKay
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: NASA Astrobiologist Dr. Chris McKay organized an August 2014 workshop to discuss the future…
Alien Minds Part III: The Octopus’s Garden and the Country of the Blind
If we do discover that there are aliens orbiting other planets, will we know how to communicate with them? What…
Alien Minds Part II: Do Aliens Think Big Brains are Sexy Too?
Can we assume that aliens will evolve intelligence over the eons, and will this lead to other technological civilizations? Will…
Alien Minds I: Are Extraterrestrial Civilizations Likely to Evolve?
Paul Patton begins a three-part series on the evolutionary biology of aliens. Will they follow the same direction as life…
Is There a Kraken in Kraken Mare? What Kind of Life Would We Find on Titan?
Could there be life on Saturn’s large moon Titan? Asking the question forces astrobiologists and chemists to think carefully and…
More Evidence That Comets May Have Brought Life to Earth
The idea of panspermia -- that life on Earth originated from comets or asteroids bombarding our planet -- is not…
Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” II: Questioning the Hart-Tipler Conjecture
Welcome back to our Fermi Paradox series, where we take a look at possible resolutions to Enrico Fermi's famous question,…
Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” I: A Lunchtime Conversation- Enrico Fermi and Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Welcome back to our Fermi Paradox series, where we take a look at possible resolutions to Enrico Fermi's famous question,…
Who Speaks for Earth? The Controversy over Interstellar Messaging
Should we beam messages into deep space, announcing our presence to any extraterrestrial civilizations that might be out there? Or,…
Defining Life II: Metabolism and Evolution as clues to Extraterrestrial Life
In the movie "Avatar", we could tell at a glance that the alien moon Pandora was teeming with alien life.…