Biosignatures — Topic Summaries
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Why Haven't We Found Alien Life?
The central puzzle is the mismatch between what astronomy suggests about life’s odds and what humanity has actually found: Kepler data imply billions...
First Detection of Life
The most consequential idea in this account is that “life detection” from afar should rely less on finding familiar molecules and more on spotting...
How Will We (Most Likely) Discover Alien Life?
The most plausible path to the first detection of extraterrestrial life may not involve radio messages or spacecraft—it's likely to come from “alien...
We pretty much have evidence for life in other solar systems.
Tentative signs of life beyond Earth are increasingly showing up in exoplanet atmosphere data—especially from the James Webb Space Telescope—but the...
Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?
Viruses sit at the boundary between living and nonliving matter—and that makes them central to planetary evolution and a plausible (though unproven)...