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The news that we'll soon have an unclassified report sent to Congress on "unidentified aerial phenomena" - commonly known as "UFOs" - has sparked widespread interest in the search for life in the universe. Might there be civilizations out there? Could there be technologically advanced extraterrestrials? If so, how can we find them?
Somewhere out there are other Earths. Lisa Kaltenegger has a way to find them.
Lisa Kaltenegger is among the scientists hoping to find evidence of life on worlds that orbit stars beyond our sun
For Lisa Kaltenegger and her generation of exoplanet astronomers, decades of planning have set the stage for an epochal detection.
Astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger is searching for biomarkers on worlds beyond our Solar System
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subscribe to Short Wave podcast Right now, a couple of planets about as massive as Earth are orbiting a dim star that's just a dozen light-years away from us. Those planets could be cozy enough to potentially support life.
They have noticed something intriguing coming from the direction of Proxima Centauri. Last month, as 2020 drew to a close and we on Earth completed one of our strangest orbits around the sun, news broke that astronomers had picked up a mysterious signal from another star.
From observations of planets forming around nascent stars to planets circling dead white dwarf remnants of stars like our own, astronomy gives us the tools to look into both our distant past and far future.
Astronomers say potential life on planets around flaring stars might find a creative way to survive. It takes more than four years for its light to reach us, but Proxima Centauri is one of our closest neighbors. The star orbits in the constellation Centaurus, visible in the Southern Hemisphere, but is itself too faint to see with the naked eye.