EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE

Earthlings have been unsuccessful in the ongoing quest to find aliens from outer space. Here are three scary possibilities for why that has been the case.

Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! New observations of two supernovae: The Crab Nebula and Cassieopia A show wildly differing amounts of a vital component for life to thrive: Phosphorus. A team of astronomers from the University of Cardiff in Wales have measured these two supernovae in an attempt to find out how Phosphorus was distributed throughout the galaxy. What they found was surprising and rather bad news for those of us hoping to find a galaxy teeming with life. Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

Earthlings have been hard at work looking for alien life, but a recent study suggests that there may not be much of it to find.

Scientists say there could be possible microbial life in the atmosphere of Venus.

An exploration of the concept of a pulsar ring and a broader discussion of Dyson Spheres and potential SETI detections of them and a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox. https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Papers: "IRAS-based Whole-Sky Upper Limit on Dyson Spheres " Carrigan, 2009 https://arxiv.org/pdf/0811.2376.pdf "Are the Dyson rings around pulsars detectable?" Osmanov, 2017 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.04142.pdf "On the search for artificial Dyson-like structures around pulsars", Osmanov, 2016 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/on-the-search-for-artificial-dysonlike-structures-around-pulsars/F81897B07199173A573226D4DC8B77A7 Music: Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

An exploration of scenarios within scientific possibility of why aliens might choose to invade earth. https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Music: Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Cylinder Seven by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Cylinder Three by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100783 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Space X-plorers Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Scientists have discovered a flare off of the sun’s closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri. Many are reporting that it could spell trouble for any hope for life on its exoplanet, Proxima b—but it might also kill off a presumed set of other planets around the star. Last fall, lots of folks, including me, reported on evidence of dust rings around Proxima Centuari. These potential rings would imply that the star could have an elaborate planetary system alongside its confirmed exoplanet, Proxima b. https://gizmodo.com/giant-flare-around-proxima-centauri-may-kill-hope-for-p-1823366240 http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

If aliens do exist, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku posits, why would they want anything to do with us? It would be like a hunter talking to a squirrel, he suggests, and he has a great point. Hollywood and science fiction novels have conditioned us for years to believe that aliens either want to hang out on our intellectual level and learn from us... or destroy us. If alien life really does have the technology and know-how to make it all the way here, perhaps we should just play it cool and not assume that we are the top species in the universe. Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/michio-kaku-michio-kaku-lets-not-advertise-our-existence-to-aliens Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink We have this mental image that a flying saucer will circle the White House lawn, land on the White House lawn and give us a bounty of all sorts of technological goodies to initiate an age of Aquarius on the planet earth. Personally, I don’t think that’s going to happen. For example, if you’re in the forest do you go out and talk to the squirrels and the deer? Maybe you do for a while, but after a while, you get bored because they don’t talk back to you because they have nothing interesting to tell you because they can’t relate to our values and our ideas. If you go down to an anthill do you go down to the ants and say I bring you trinkets; I bring you bees; take me to your aunt queen; I give you nuclear energy. So I think for the most part the aliens are probably not going to be interested in us because we’re so arrogant to believe that we have something to offer them. Realize that they could be thousands, maybe millions of years ahead of us in technology and they may have no interest in interacting with us in the same way that we don’t necessarily want to deal with the squirrels and the deer in the forest. Now some people say that we should not try to make contact with them because they could be potentially dangerous. For the most part, I think they’re going to be peaceful because they’ll be thousands of years ahead of us, but we cannot take the chance. So I personally believe that we should not try to advertise our existence to alien life in outer space because of the fact that we don’t know their intentions.

Use my link http://www.audible.com/isaac or text isaac to 500-500 to get a FREE audiobook and 30-day free trial! The idea that alien civilizations may exist but be hiding or asleep is a popular explanation for the Fermi Paradox, the apparent contradiction between the immensity of the Universe and the seeming absence of civilizations in it. Today we exam the concept that civilization may hibernate and what their motives for doing so would be. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Join the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Support the Channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Visit the sub-reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/fermi-paradox-sleeping-giants Cover Art by Jakub Grygier: https://www.artstation.com/artist/jakub_grygier Graphics Team: Edward Nardella Jarred Eagley Justin Dixon Katie Byrne Kris Holland of Mafic Stufios: www.maficstudios.com Misho Yordanov Pierre Demet Sergio Botero: https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc Stefan Blandin Script Editing Andy P Christian Leichsenring Edward Nardella Finrod Felagund Gregory Leal Keith Blockus Konstantin Sokerin Matthew Acker Mark Warburton N Kern Sigmund Kopperud Music Supervisor Luca De Rosa Music: Ender Guney, "Big Gun Epic" Kai Engel, "Daedalus" "Ross Bugden, "Interstellar" Dexter Britain, "Going Under" Chris Zabriskie, "Cylinder Nine" Phase Shift, "Forest Night" Kai Engel, "Crying Earth" Markus Junnikkala, "Course Set To Intercept" Martin Rezny, "Lifelight"

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Reupload to fix an audio issue. Assessing the possibility of visitation. Hosted by Seth Shostak and Molly Bentley. It was a shocker of a story, splashed across the New York Times front page: The existence of a five-year long, hidden Pentagon investigation of UFOs. With one-third of the American public convinced that aliens are visiting Earth, could this study finally provide the proof? We consider how this story came to light and what the $22 million program has produced. Does the existence of a secret study mean there’s now decent proof of extraterrestrial craft in our skies? We take a look at the evidence made public so far. And why, six years after the study ended, are we learning about it now? Guests: James Oberg http://www.jamesoberg.com/ - Space journalist, historian and former NASA employee James McGaha https://www.centerforinquiry.net/speakers/mcgaha_james - Retired Air Force pilot, astronomer and director of the Grasslands Observatory Ben Radford http://benjaminradford.com/ - Deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine and a Research Fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Descripción en español http://musingsfromthecosmicshore.net/?p=2052 Download audio: http://radio.seti.org/episodes/skeptic-check-new-ufo-evidence Hosted by Seth Shostak and Molly Bentley, The Big Picture Science radio show and podcast engages the public with modern science research through lively and intelligent storytelling. Science radio doesn’t have to be dull. The only dry thing about our program is the humor. Read more at http://radio.seti.org/episodes/about_the_show Follow Big Picture Science in the Twitterverse https://twitter.com/BiPiSci ©2018 SETI Institute. All Rights Reserved 189 Bernardo Ave, Suite 200, Mountain View, CA 94043 Phone 650.961.6633

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Guest speaker: Dr Charley Lineweaver When we look at the starry sky we cannot help wonder whether we are alone in the universe or whether other sentient beings exist, and if so how far away they are. Maybe the light reflected off our planet and old radio transmissions have travelled through the enormous distances of space and reached intelligent beings, who may also be wondering whether there is life here. Presently we do not have the technology to travel far outside of the solar system and check this out for ourselves, but since time immemorial philosophers have been debating whether we are the only intelligent species in the universe, while scientists have devised experiments to detect signs of life outside of Earth. In this keynote address, we’ll hear from one of the topmost Australian researchers in the field of astrobiology what we have learned so far, and will be treated to a thought-provoking travel through time and space to answer the ultimate question: are we alone? Dr Charles (Charley) Lineweaver is the convener of the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) of the Australian National University (ANU), where he holds a joint Associate Professorship in the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and the Research School of Earth Sciences. He obtained his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a member of the COBE satellite team that discovered temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background. His current research ranges from cosmology, to exoplanetology, astrobiology and evolutionary biology.

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The supertelescopes are coming, enormous ground and space-based observatories that’ll let us directly observe the atmospheres of distant worlds. We know there’s life on Earth, and our atmosphere tells the tale, so can we do the same thing with extrasolar planets? It turns out, coming up with a single biosignature, a chemical in the atmosphere that tells you that yes, absolutely, there’s life on that world, is really tough. Sign up to my weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+universetoday/ Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] Chloe Cain - Instagram: @chloegwen2001 References: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/1794-ssc2007-09a1-First-Map-of-an-Exoplanet-Atmosphere http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/1950-ssc2017-06--Warm-Neptune-Has-Unexpectedly-Primitive-Atmosphere https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/probing-seven-worlds-with-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1710/1710.03976.pdf I’ve got to admit, I’ve been pretty bad for this in the past. In old episodes of Astronomy Cast and the Weekly Space Hangout, even here in the Guide to Space, I’ve said that if we could just sample the atmosphere of a distant world, we could say with conviction if there’s life there. Just detect ozone in the atmosphere, or methane, or even pollution and you could say, “there’s life there.” Well, future Fraser is here to correct past Fraser. While I admire his naive enthusiasm for the search for aliens, it turns out, as always, things are going to be more difficult than we previously thought. Astrobiologists are actually struggling to figure out a single smoking gun biosignature that could be used to say there’s life out there. And that’s because natural processes seem to have clever ways of fooling us. What are some potential biosignatures, why are they problematic, and what will it take to get that confirmation?

An exploration of the habitability of binary star systems and how SETI might search them for signals from intelligent alien life. https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Papers: "Sharing the Universe: Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life", Seth Shostak, 1998, Berkley Hills Books "Climate variations on Earth-like circumbinary planets", Popp and Eggl, 2017 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14957 Music: Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

We often think of colonizing or even terraforming a planet, but how about colonizing every planet in your galaxy, and not by spaceships but by self replicating machines. In this episode, we will be looking at von Neumann probes, discussing many reasons why you’d use them, tied in with the Fermi paradox. ►Click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB0fFWQLZ2oj-FaoDUG_wow?sub_confirmation=1 ►Written, Produced & Narrated by: David ►Share this video: https://youtu.be/SEziF9P8ZZc Music: “Cylinder Five” by Chris Zabriskie “A Memory of Earth” by Markus Junnikkala

An exploration of ten of the most unsettling solutions to the Fermi Paradox, or the question of are we alone and if not, where are they? https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Papers: "The Sustainability Solution to the Fermi Paradox", Haqq-Misra and Baum, 2009 https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0568 Music: Cylinder Eight by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Cylinder Seven by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between the sheer size and age of the Universe and the apparent absence of any other intelligent life besides ourselves. In this episode, we will be looking at intelligent aliens or technologically advanced civilizations, tied in with the Fermi paradox. ►Click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB0fFWQLZ2oj-FaoDUG_wow?sub_confirmation=1 ►Written, Produced & Narrated by: David ►Share this video: https://youtu.be/-e5caC9eeoY Music: “A Memory of Earth” by Markus Junnikkala “Staring Through” by AJ Prasad

We tend to assume that life began here on Earth. But it’s possible that life originated on an alien world and in some form or another was brought here. In this video, we discuss the possibility that life originated somewhere else, either on a planet or asteroid, then spawned life here on Earth. ►Click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB0fFWQLZ2oj-FaoDUG_wow?sub_confirmation=1 ►Written, Produced & Narrated by: David ►Share this video: https://youtu.be/PjnWOBext-E Music: “Cylinder Five” by Chris Zabriskie “A Memory of Earth” by Markus Junnikkala

Tabby's Star, or KIC 8462852, took the internet by storm when it was speculated that it could be the home of an alien megastructure. But recent research seems to shed more light on the mystery. Check out the TED talk by Tabetha Boyajian here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gypAjPp6eps Get your I Want To Believe shirt at: http://www.answerswithjoe.com/shirts Support me on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/answerswithjoe Follow me at all my places! Instagram: https://instagram.com/answerswithjoe Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/answerswithjoe Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/answerswithjoe Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/answerswithjoe LINKS LINKS LINKS: SciShow Space on Tabby's Star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULF_sn6vy54 Isaac Arthur on Tabby's Star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVCpBr3fxdE Seeker on Tabby's Star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XDS_aTVBrE

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An exploration of supernovas as a precursor to alien contact transmissions. https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Papers: "Supernovae as time markers in interstellar communication", T.B. Tang, 1976 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234326464_Supernovae_as_time_markers_in_interstellar_communication "Long-Term Prospects: Mitigation of Supernova and Gamma-Ray Burst Threat to Intelligent Beings" Cirkovik and Vukotic https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.06096v1.pdf Music: Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

An exploration of the other bodies in the solar system other than earth that might be habitable for some forms of alien life. https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Music: Light Awash by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100175 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

During the summer of 1950, physicist Enrico Ferm posed a question to his colleagues over lunch, "Don't you ever wonder where everybody is?" Fermi was referring to alien life. In the 4.4 billion years it took a species capable of space travel to form on Earth, Fermi proposed that the galaxy should have been overrun with intelligent, technologically-advanced aliens. Yet, we have no evidence of this despite decades of searching. This conundrum became known as the Fermi Paradox. Scientists have proposed many theories over the decades, including planetary scientist, Alan Stern, who has the latest idea. Alan Stern: What my paper suggests is that it may be related to a fairly recent discovery of planetary science that most of the ocean worlds in our own solar system are interior to planets as opposed to our own planet where we have the oceans on the outside. And we think that oceans and water are necessary for the development of life as we know it, so perhaps, if these kinds of ocean worlds are common across the galaxy, and if that's where life most often develops. And if technological civilizations can actually develop in these interior ocean worlds, they would naturally be cut off from us because of the shell of rock and ice above their ocean. We wouldn't see their city lights. We wouldn't be able to hear their communication. They wouldn't maybe even know that there was a universe out there to communicate with. They probably would never develop space travel.  It's logical to think that ocean worlds, particularly these interior ocean worlds, are common across the galaxy. But I want to stress that we don't have evidence, direct evidence for that yet. There are actually many possible explanations proposed for Fermi Paradox. No one knows what the right answer is. Some examples are, perhaps the other civilizations aren't interested in communicating or perhaps they don't last very long, so although a lot of them, they come to exist, at any one time, there aren't very many. Hopefully, the scientific paper that I put together will help advance this a little bit and we'll see what turns out to be right.  Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sai FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/techinsider TWITTER: https://twitter.com/techinsider INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/tech_insider/

Use my link http://www.audible.com/isaac or text isaac to 500-500 to get a FREE audiobook and 30-day free trial! The concept of Interstellar Empires has fascinated us for as long as we've know those stars in the night sky were other solar systems, and it's become a staple of science fiction. But rarely do we consider how realistic such galaxy-spanning confederations are, and what special challenges they'd face. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Join the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Support the Channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Visit the sub-reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/interstellar-empires Cover Art by Jakub Grygier: https://www.artstation.com/artist/jakub_grygier Graphics Team: Edward Nardella Jarred Eagley Justin Dixon Katie Byrne Kris Holland of Mafic Stufios: www.maficstudios.com Misho Yordanov Pierre Demet Sergio Botero: https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc Stefan Blandin Script Editing: Andy Popescu Connor Hogan Edward Nardella Eustratius Graham Gregory Leal Jefferson Eagley Keith Blockus Luca de Rosa Mark Warburton Michael Gusevsky Mitch Armstrong MolbOrg Naomi Kern Philip Baldock Sigmund Kopperud Tiffany Penner Music Markus Junnikkala, "Always tell me the odds" Sergey Cheremisinov, "Labyrinth" A.J. Prasad, "Aether" Kai Engel, "Snowfall" Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran" Markus Junnikkala, "Memory of Earth" Brandow Liew, "Into the Storm"

Scientists say an initial study shows no signs of alien technology on the mysterious interstellar object.

Earlier this year, astronomers discovered what they think could be the first-ever-observed interstellar object. Chances are that it's an asteroid from another star system. But the unusual looking object has caught the attention of experts at Breakthrough Initiatives, which is on a mission to discover the first extraterrestrial intelligence beyond Earth. Experts are now using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope to take a closer look. Following is a transcript of the video. Breakthrough Initiatives is searching for intelligent life beyond Earth. The $100 million mission now has an unusual object in its sights. The object is called Oumuamua. Its thin, sleek shape is unlike anything ever seen before, which led astronomers to think it came from another star system. Its shape also has experts at Breakthrough intrigued. They say it's exactly what an alien spaceship might look like.  So, Breakthrough has decided to take a closer look, with radio telescopes on Earth. Oumuamua is currently about 186 million miles from Earth. That's twice the distance from Earth to the Sun. If the object is emitting any radio signals the telescope will detect the emissions in less than a minute. The chances that Oumuamua is an alien spacecraft are slim. More likely, it's an asteroid.  Either way, Breakthrough's mission will provide new information. It's expected to shed light on Oumuamua's chemical makeup. But Breakthrough will have to work fast. Astronomers predict that Oumuamua will leave our solar system in January 2019. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sai FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/techinsider TWITTER: https://twitter.com/techinsider INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/tech_insider/

If life exists elsewhere in the Universe, would we be able to communicate with it? In this clip from the 1977 CHRISTMAS LECTURES "The planets", Carl Sagan demonstrates how we could send a signal that would make sense to intelligent beings that have evolved independently from us. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe This video is from our 2017 advent calendar. Watch the full series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnrZHfNEDZyvS5Cx-aRTX-Y8IBJCNmYm Or watch the full lecture here: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1977/the-planets/planetary-systems-beyond-our-sun?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2017_advent&utm_content=description The Royal Institution 2017 advent calendar ‘Transmissions Through Time’ looks through the lens of CHRISTMAS LECTURES past to share the best demonstrations around the science of communication. From Attenborough and Sagan to Woollard and Fong, we revisit old favourites and find new gems to bring you a little gift of science every day in the lead up to Christmas. http://bit.ly/RiAdvent17 The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter

An exploration of the potential of detecting alien plant life. https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Music: Cylinder Eight by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

New research set to appear in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics says a star system 111 light years away has two "super-Earth" exoplanets, one of which may be able to support life.

An exploration of the concept of a galactic habitable zone and the implications it has for life in the universe. https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Papers: "Ionizing radiation and life." L.R. Dartnell, 2011 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21774684 Music: Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

Who can look out into space and not ask the age-old question: Are we alone in the universe? Astronomers have already identified dozens of planets beyond the edges of our solar system which could be like our own Earth. Join astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger, who is the director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University, as she explains the different methods astronomers use to detect exoplanets orbiting distant stars, what these planets would need to support life, and how Earth and its range of species might serve as a Rosetta Stone—a key to detecting the existence of extraterrestrial life. This SciCafe program took place at the Museum on November 1, 2017. To listen to the full lecture including Q&A session, download the podcast: https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/podcasts/amnh-scicafe-are-we-alone-in-the-universe To learn about upcoming SciCafe events, visit amnh.org/scicafe The SciCafe series is proudly sponsored by Judy and Josh Weston. #Space #Universe #AlienLife #Exoplanets #Planets #Galaxy #Trappist #Stars #SolarSystem #Extraterrestrial Facebook: http://fb.com/naturalhistory Twitter: http://twitter.com/amnh Tumblr: http://amnhnyc.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/amnh This video and all media incorporated herein (including text, images, and audio) are the property of the American Museum of Natural History or its licensors, all rights reserved. The Museum has made this video available for your personal, educational use. You may not use this video, or any part of it, for commercial purposes, nor may you reproduce, distribute, publish, prepare derivative works from, or publicly display it without the prior written consent of the Museum. © American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

An exploration of the findings of the Curiosity probe at Gale Crater on Mars. https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Papers: "Redox stratification of an ancient lake in Gale crater, Mars", Hurowitz et al, 2017 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6341/eaah6849 Music: Light Awash by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100175 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Last month, a group of scientists with the “Sónar Calling GJ273b” project sent coded radio messages to a star system 12.4 light-years away in the hopes of getting a reply from aliens.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and others are taking the lessons learned from decades of Earth observation and applying that knowledge to the search for life in the Cosmos. -- STORY: How Do Scientists Search for Extraterrestrial Life: https://www.space.com/36898-how-to-search-for-extraterrestrial-life.html Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/LK Ward Music credit: Curious Events by Independent Film Score - Andrew Skeet; Teapot Waltz by Benjamin James Parsons; Patisserie Pressure by Benjamin James Parsons

SPACE — Scientists and artists beamed a message to the GJ 273 system last month to see if any aliens are listening. The message will only take about a dozen years to arrive. GJ 273 is a red dwarf also called Luyten's star and is a nearby 12.36 light-years from our own Mother Earth. Luyten's star hosts two known planets, one of which, GJ 273b, might be able to support life, according to Space.com. The radio signal included music and math lessons from us to them and was designed for aliens to respond. Some critics like Stephen Hawking worry that actively trying to contact E.T. could alert advanced hostile or resource-seeking aliens, which could have dire consequences for our planet. Don't worry, we'll destroy ourselves first before any dirty alien will get a chance too. But on the bright side, if in 25 years we hear an actual response, wouldn't that be something. ----------------------------------------­--------------------- TomoNews is your best source for real news. We cover the funniest, craziest and most talked-about stories on the internet. Our tone is irreverent and unapologetic. If you’re laughing, we’re laughing. If you’re outraged, we’re outraged. We tell it like it is. And because we can animate stories, TomoNews brings you news like you’ve never seen before. Visit our official website for all the latest, uncensored videos: http://us.tomonews.com Check out our Android app: http://bit.ly/1rddhCj Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f Get your TomoNews merch today! http://bit.ly/tomonews-teespring Get top stories delivered to your inbox everyday: http://bit.ly/tomo-newsletter Stay connected with us here: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/ Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus

Following is a transcript of the video. Humans just tried to contact intelligent aliens. There's a fiery debate in the scientific community. Should we actively try to contact aliens? Pros: We could make first contact with intelligent aliens. Cons: We could contact hostile aliens who come and destroy Earth. Now, a collaboration between musicians and scientists just added fuel to the fire. They sent a radio message to potential aliens on a nearby exoplanet. Is this a good idea? We asked three scientists what they thought. Brian Greene, Co-founder of the World Science Festival and theoretical physicist at Columbia: I think we should be all shouting and cheering to the heavens. Let's join the community of cosmic life if there's anything out there. Jill Tarter, Former Director of the Center for SETI Research: I think it's probably not the best idea. I think that transmissions should only happen as the result of the consensus, and after there's been a discussion about whether we should. But not only that, if we decide to, then who should speak for Earth and what should they say? Caleb Scharf, author of "The Zoomable Universe" and Director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center at Columbia: There is a slightly reckless edge to this because you have to think about, suppose we received a message like this. The message itself may be friendly, full of information, request for communication but it would be incredibly disruptive for us to receive this as a species, as a civilization. The truth is we don't know whether is this very risky. We don't know. What are the odds of actually making contact? Jill Tarter: It does no good as they have done to transmit for 33 minutes and not again. Because it means that the receiver is going to have to be looking at you, at us, at exactly the right time in exactly the right way during those 33 minutes when the signal goes on past. To me it seems like this is a strategy with very limited ability to succeed. Brian Greene: I certainly do agree with Jill — the odds that the alien civilization is listening in at just the right moment when a 33 minute signal wafts by is somewhat unlikely unless they have a dedicated system that's scanning the heavens and looking for signs of life out there. Caleb Scharf: The odds of a relatively nearby star to us hosting a civilization capable of detecting this message but a civilization that we have not heard from ourselves, it seems like those odds are a bit of a stretch. It's one star out of 200 billion stars in our galaxy. So one does question the odds of that one being a good one. Are we all going to die from a hostile alien invasion? Caleb Scharf: Even with reasonable concerns raised by people saying "Well, is it sensible to announce our existence here?" I think the flip side to that would be that to say, any civilization capable of receiving a signal, capable of doing anything about it, of actually deciding to come and eat us all, that level of sophistication — those civilizations would already know that we exist. Jill Tarter: If they're going to be able to get here then they are, in fact by definition, significantly more technologically advanced than we are on Earth today. They also might have figured out a way to manage their planet and their civilization sustainably for long periods. That seems to me that aggression is not likely to be their main characteristic in that case. Brian Greene: It's just too unlikely a scenario to concern ourselves with. We need to be bold, we need to be strong, we need to be visionary and those qualities have defined the best of us across millennia and we need to allow those qualities to define the best of us going to the future. What's the next step? Jill Tarter: What I'm hoping is that this will cause more discussion. I'd like to hear what the rest of the world has to say. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sai FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/techinsider TWITTER: https://twitter.com/techinsider INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/tech_insider/

ENCELADUS, SATURN — Scientists looking at data pulled from NASA's Cassini spacecraft may have found out how Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus remains geologically active. The research, published in Nature Astronomy, suggests that tidal currents flow through the moon's porous core, where the friction between rocks generate heat that warms the ocean. According to the European Space Agency, this tidal heating is primarily caused by the gravitational pull of Saturn. Writing in 2008, the space agency speculated that the deep sea vent theory could apply to life on Enceladus. When applied to Earth, this suggests life originated from chemical, heat and tidal interactions beneath the seabed. NASA previously said Enceladus has all the ingredients for life, reported CNET, citing the space agency. ----------------------------------------­--------------------- TomoNews is your best source for real news. We cover the funniest, craziest and most talked-about stories on the internet. Our tone is irreverent and unapologetic. If you’re laughing, we’re laughing. If you’re outraged, we’re outraged. We tell it like it is. And because we can animate stories, TomoNews brings you news like you’ve never seen before. Visit our official website for all the latest, uncensored videos: http://us.tomonews.com Check out our Android app: http://bit.ly/1rddhCj Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f Get your TomoNews merch today! http://bit.ly/tomonews-teespring Get top stories delivered to your inbox everyday: http://bit.ly/tomo-newsletter Stay connected with us here: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/ Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus

An exploration of alternative SETI messages that may not say hello. https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Papers: "Searching for Interstellar Communications" Cocconi and Morrison, 1959 http://www.bigear.org/vol1no1/interste.htm "Intelligent life in the Universe" By Carl Sagan and Iosef Shklovski, 1962 Music Cylinder Eight by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Cylinder Three by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Cylinder Seven by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

Follow my twitter for questions: https://twitter.com/Dreksler_Astral Life, is it really everywhere? Well there might be, and in this video i give reasons as to how there is life on every planet in the solar system. Intro and outro footage made with Space Engine. Microscopic life footage: Peter Matulavich/Science Photo Library Music: First: Hydra - Huma-Huma Second: Eureka - Huma-Huma Third: Hydra - Huma-Huma Dreksler Astral

A new study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology suggests alien life, if it exists, might follow evolutionary theory.

An exploration into the notion that an alien civilization may transmit a malicious SETI signal. www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Music: Darkest Child A by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100783 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

The question of whether we are alone in the Milky Way (or in the universe) is one of the most intriguing questions in science and astronomy. Our solar system formed half way through the history of the universe, and many sun-like stars that host planetary systems are billions of years older than our Sun. The odds of finding evidence for life are unknown, but the search continues as astronomers observe the nearby universe for earth-like planets and seek signs of life on exoplanets that resemble the earth in terms of atmosphere, composition and climate. The answer to are we alone? affects our claim for being special in the cosmos, and we shall never know unless we search. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/are-we-alone-in-the-universe Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 2,000 lectures free to access or download from the website. Website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollege Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/greshamcollege

U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Pass the Torch Talk by Dr. Andrew Siemion, Director, UC Berkeley Center for SETI Research, Oct. 5, 2017, Huntsville, AL.

There's no debating evolution, but a debate remains among biologists over how it actually works. Is evolution deterministic in that its outcomes could not have been otherwise, or is it more random? Harvard biologist Jonathan Losos defends the view that evolution is not deterministic, that takes many different pathways to endpoints that are historically contingent. Take for instance the island of New Zealand which has been geographically isolated from Australia for 80 million years. If evolution were deterministic, we'd expect to see dinosaurs just as they had once existed on Earth, but we see kiwis and moas instead. Losos says that has important implications for life may look like on alien worlds, i.e. don't expect any spacefaring T-Rexes. Learn more about evolution from his book, Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution. Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/jonathan-losos-evolution-is-established-science-but-its-true-nature-is-still-up-for-debate Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Transcript: So there’s a lot of discussion of what might life look like on other planets, if life has evolved there. Will it diversify in a way like the world today? And there’s a lot of speculation about that question. But we actually don’t need to go to other planets to ask that question. And that’s because there are different places on Earth that have had different evolutionary histories. And so we can ask on different places in the world, has life evolved in the same way under similar conditions? And it turns out that we’re very well set for that, because there are isolated islands that have been their own evolutionary theaters, if you will, that life has evolved very differently or very independently for a long time. The best example of that I think is New Zealand. Now New Zealand broke off from Australia about 80 million years ago. And this was before most modern mammal groups had really diversified. And, in fact, today there are no native land mammals on New Zealand. There are some seals that come ashore on the beach, there are a few species of bats, but there are no rodents, there are no carnivores, and so on, except the ones that humans have introduced in the last couple hundred years. So the question is how did New Zealand evolve in the absence of land mammals? Well it turns out that birds in particular have taken advantage of that and they’ve evolved to do many of the things that mammals do elsewhere in the world. And there are carnivores and herbivores and all kinds of birds. Now if we thought that evolution is deterministic then we would expect New Zealand, even though it’s dominated by birds, to have species very similar to those elsewhere in the world. But that’s not at all the case. The best example is the kiwi. Now people know the kiwi, it’s a bird this big. It turns out that it has no wings. It runs around on the ground. It has an extremely good sense of smell, which is very unusual for birds. It also has little whiskers, very similar to mammals. Basically a kiwi does the same thing that a hedgehog or maybe a badger or an armadillo does. It goes around rooting through the leaf litter looking for worms and other invertebrates. Yet it has adapted in a very different way. And, in fact, the entire cast of characters in New Zealand is very different. There are carnivorous parrots, there are parrots that are completely flightless and walk around on the ground looking for seeds. There was a ten foot tall moa, a land bird that can’t fly, that is the dominant herbivore that looks nothing like a deer or a bison or its ecological equivalence elsewhere. So New Zealand is an alternative world if you will. Almost an alternative planet in evolutionary terms. What has evolved there is completely different from the rest of the world. And this is true of other places. Australia in at least some respects is very different. Madagascar – or go back to the age of the dinosaurs. Well the dinosaurs came, they went extinct. If evolution is so deterministic why don’t we have t-rex and brontosaurus-type dinosaurs today? It’s because evolution has gone in a very different direction. So we don’t need to go to other planets to see how deterministic evolution is. We can just look in different places on Earth and we can see that the outcome often is very different.

Carl Sagan, co-founder of The Planetary Society, and former Board of Advisors member, Frank Drake, discuss the possibility of other life in the universe. Learn more at https://planet.ly/GVX2N Also featured in this retro video is professor Paul Horowitz and director Steven Spielberg switching on META (Megachannel ExtraTerrestrial Assay) in Argentina. META II is still working and searching the cosmos for signs of extraterrestrial civilizations. "There is some chance that in a few decades we will get a signal from a spectacularly distant, spectacularly exotic civilization and everything on Earth will, as a consequence, change." -Carl Sagan Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: http://planet.ly/ytsubscribe Follow us! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/planetarysociety Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/exploreplanets Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/planetarysociety On the web: http://www.planetary.org Join us: http://www.planetary.org/join Stay in touch with our monthly e-newsletter: http://www.planetary.org/connect About The Planetary Society: The Planetary Society has inspired millions of people to explore other worlds and seek other life. With the mission to empower the world's citizens to advance space science and exploration, its international membership makes the non-governmental Planetary Society the largest space interest group in the world. Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray and Louis Friedman founded the Planetary Society in 1980. Bill Nye, a longtime member of the Planetary Society's Board, serves as CEO.

THE ORVILLE producer Andre Bormanis discusses the real possibilities of alien life. Subscribe now for more The Orville clips: http://fox.tv/SubscribeTheOrville See more of The Orville on our official site: http://fox.tv/TheOrville Like The Orville on Facebook: http://fox.tv/TheOrville_FB Follow The Orville on Twitter: http://fox.tv/TheOrville_TW Follow The Orville on Instagram: http://fox.tv/TheOrville_IG Like FOX on Facebook: ‪http://fox.tv/FOXTV_FB‬‬ Follow FOX on Twitter: ‪http://fox.tv/FOXTV_Twitter‬‬ Add FOX on Google+: ‪http://fox.tv/FOXPlus‬‬ From Emmy Award-winning executive producer and creator Seth MacFarlane (FAMILY GUY, “Ted”) and directed by Jon Favreau (“The Jungle Book,” “Iron Man”), THE ORVILLE is a one-hour science fiction series set 400 years in the future that follows the adventures of the U.S.S. Orville, a mid-level exploratory vessel. Its crew, both human and alien, faces the wonders and dangers of outer space, while also dealing with the familiar, often humorous problems of regular people in a workplace…even though some of those people are from other planets, and the workplace is a faster-than-light spaceship. In the 25th century, Earth is part of the Planetary Union, a far-reaching, advanced and mostly peaceful civilization with a fleet of 3,000 ships. Down on his luck after a bitter divorce, Planetary Union officer ED MERCER (MacFarlane) finally gets his chance to command one of these ships: the U.S.S. Orville. Determined to prove his worth and write a new chapter in his life, Ed finds that task all the more difficult when the First Officer assigned to his ship is his ex-wife, KELLY GRAYSON (Adrianne Palicki, “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “Friday Night Lights”). As the new commander, Ed assembles a qualified, but eccentric crew, including his best friend, GORDON MALLOY (Scott Grimes, “ER,” “Justified”), who has problems with authority, but is the best helmsman in the fleet; DR. CLAIRE FINN (Penny Johnson Jerald, “24,” “The Larry Sanders Show”), one of the Union’s most accomplished physicians; BORTUS (Peter Macon, “Shameless,” “Bosch”), an alien from a single-sex species; ISAAC (Mark Jackson, “That Royal Today”), an artificial life-form from a machine society that thinks biological life-forms are inferior; navigator JOHN LAMARR (J. Lee, FAMILY GUY, “The Cleveland Show”), whose casual humor cuts through even the most dire situations; ALARA KITAN (Halston Sage, “Neighbors,” “Goosebumps”), a young, inexperienced security officer whose home planet’s high gravity gives her superior physical strength; and YAPHIT, a gelatinous creature voiced by comedian Norm Macdonald (“The Middle,” “Saturday Night Live”). Somehow, Ed and Kelly must put the past behind them and, with the help of the crew, navigate fascinating and sometimes dangerous adventures in outer space, as well as the tumultuous and captivating day-to-day personal relationships with their colleagues. The Science Of THE ORVILLE: Alien Life | Season 1 | THE ORVILLE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-AtVTn-F0RUtdXDXzhXzmQ

Top 10 Places Where Life Might Exist Beyond Earth Subscribe: http://goo.gl/Q2kKrD // TIMESTAMPS BELOW Have a Top 10 idea? Submit it to us here! http://www.WatchMojo.com/Suggest Finding life beyond Earth is one of humanity’s greatest goals. But is life possible on other planets except Earth? If so, what other places in the solar system have habitats that might support life? From planets like Mars and Venus, to Meteorites, there are some places in space that may house living things. WatchMojo counts down ten locations in the universe that could sustain life. If you’ve had enough of real-life planets, be sure to watch our videos of the Top 10 Coolest Fictional Video Game Planets: https://youtu.be/xDbYd25Hdhs, Top 10 Coolest Planets In Sci-Fi Movies: https://youtu.be/G6xhIkSo-94 and Top 10 Planets in the Star Wars Universe: https://youtu.be/xoa6f2kuUso. #10: Kepler-186f #9: Venus #8: Io #7: Meteorites #6: Callisto #5: Ganymede #4: Mars #3, #2 & #1??? Watch on WatchMojo: http://www.WatchMojo.com Special thanks to our users EmJay, TomWoodley, [email protected], Hascerflef and Joao S for suggesting this idea! Check out the voting page at http://watchmojo.com/suggest/Top%20Ten%20Places%20Life%20Might%20Exist%20Beyond%20Earth Our Magazine!! Learn the inner workings of WatchMojo and meet the voices behind the videos, articles by our specialists from gaming, film, tv, anime and more. VIEW INSTANTLY: http://goo.gl/SivjcX WatchMojo's Social Media Pages http://www.Facebook.com/WatchMojo http://www.Twitter.com/WatchMojo http://instagram.com/watchmojo Get WatchMojo merchandise at shop.watchmojo.com WatchMojo’s ten thousand videos on Top 10 lists, Origins, Biographies, Tips, How To’s, Reviews, Commentary and more on Pop Culture, Celebrity, Movies, Music, TV, Film, Video Games, Politics, News, Comics, Superheroes. Your trusted authority on ranking Pop Culture.