New Study Suggests We Should Search for "Spillover" from Extraterrestrial Radio Communications

New analysis of human deep space communications suggests the most likely places to detect signals from an extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Another Earth-like exoplanet crossed off the list: JWST shows that GJ 3929b has no atmosphere https://phys.org/news/2025-08-earth-exoplanet-jwst-gj-3929b.html 🪐 #Exoplanet #Exoplanets #AlienWorlds #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science
Another Earth-like exoplanet crossed off the list: JWST shows that GJ 3929b has no atmosphere

As missions like Kepler and TESS discovered more rocky exoplanets in recent years, scientists looked forward to the launch of the JWST. The powerful space telescope has the ability to gather infrared spectra of exoplanet atmospheres, a key need in understanding the planets being discovered. It was hoped that these atmospheric characterizations would advance our understanding of habitability.

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Analysis suggests the most likely places to detect signals from an extraterrestrial intelligence https://phys.org/news/2025-08-analysis-extraterrestrial-intelligence.html 🪐 #Exoplanet #Exoplanets #AlienWorlds #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science
Analysis suggests the most likely places to detect signals from an extraterrestrial intelligence

If an extraterrestrial intelligence were looking for signs of human communications, when and where should they look? In a new study, researchers at Penn State and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California analyzed when and where human deep space transmissions would be most detectable by an observer outside our solar system and suggest that the patterns they see could be used to guide our own search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

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The Odds of Life and Intelligence

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Tidal Forces and Orbital Evolution of Habitable Zone Planets

How do tidal forces determine a planet’s orbital evolution, specifically planets in the habitable zone? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated how tidal forces far more powerful than experienced on Earth could influence orbital evolution of habitable zone planets with highly eccentric orbits around low-mass stars. This study has the potential to help researchers better understand the formation and evolution of exoplanets, specifically regarding where we could find life beyond Earth.

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Our recent #SETILive wasn't the first time we talked about an exoplanet in the habitable zone around Alpha Centauri. Four years ago, Franck chatted with Dr. Kevin Wagner about his newly published paper in Nature Communications.

Watch more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wkpFhjdzWo

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A Possible Planet in the Habitable zone of Alpha Centauri?

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... eventually disperse if open) or if most form more or less at random positions within the cloud without being initially part of a cluster. It's a matter of substructure within star-forming regions. Since planets form long before a cluster has time to disperse, there are #exoplanet implications.
Cosmo Sight - Astronomy & science on Instagram: "See those four tiny dots of light? They’re not just stars. They’re actual exoplanets, orbiting a distant star 130 light-years away from Earth. What you’re looking at is a real 12-year timelapse of an alien solar system: HR 8799. Captured by the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, this was the first planetary system ever confirmed through direct imaging. You’re literally watching planets move in real-time around another sun. Credit: Jason Wang, William Thompson, Christian Marois, Quinn Konopacky #nasa #astrophysics"

22K likes, 674 comments - cosmosight on August 7, 2025: "See those four tiny dots of light? They’re not just stars. They’re actual exoplanets, orbiting a distant star 130 light-years away from Earth. What you’re looking at is a real 12-year timelapse of an alien solar system: HR 8799. Captured by the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, this was the first planetary system ever confirmed through direct imaging. You’re literally watching planets move in real-time around another sun. Credit: Jason Wang, William Thompson, Christian Marois, Quinn Konopacky #nasa #astrophysics".

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Built on Exoplanet 12553, this interplanetary ship won mutiple design awards. It was built as a short haul transport between planets with the streamlining to travel from the planetary surface to surface. It saved time and money by elimating the need for seperate launch and orbital ships. Now forty years old, these unsung heros are loved by spaceship nerds for their simple, elegant and purposeful designs.

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Built on Exoplanet 12553, this interplanetary ship won mutiple design awards. It was built as a short haul transport between planets with the streamlining to travel from the planetary surface to surface. It saved time and money by elimating the need for seperate launch and orbital ships. Now forty years old, these unsung heros are loved by spaceship nerds for their simple, elegant and purposeful designs.

#scifi #exoplanet #macro #nature #photography #flower