Elise Cutts

Elise Cutts

Elise Cutts, Contributor at Quanta

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Under the night sky, where the Milky Way galaxy glows above a silhouette of trees and a mountain, stars scatter across the deep blue and purple expanse. It's an ideal backdrop for alien hunting, sparking curiosity about potential biosignatures hidden among those distant celestial wonders.
Hard Science
Doubts grow about the biosignature approach to alien-hunting
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
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