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A decision has just been reached that will give an amazing boost to our capacity to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. On 12th November, member states of the European Space Agency (ESA) signed off on the proposed space telescope called ARIEL, which has thus been given the green light for construction and launch. There […]
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Wallace Arthur, author of The Biological Universe, sheds some light on one of humanity's most enduring questions.
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The rapidly-increasing number of known planets has just passed the 4200 mark, according to NASA. The upshot of this is that we may now have enough planets to detect extraterrestrial life, even if we never discovered any more planets, which is most unlikely given that there are over 5000 additional ‘candidate planets’ awaiting confirmation. Discovering […]
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Author of The Biological Universe, Wallace Arthur, discusses what we can expect from the NASA Mars 2020 mission. The launch date is correct at time of publication.
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For thousands of years, human beings have wondered if we are alone in the universe. Only recently have we developed the technology to investigate by exploring the far reaches of space for signs of life. In an excerpt from this fall's Life Beyond Earth, join the search for what—or who—might be out there.
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