What if we find nothing in our search for life beyond Earth? “Even if we don’t find life, we’ll finally be able to say how rare— or how common—it really might be.” PRESS RELEASE DATE April 7, 2025 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications, SETI...
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What if we find nothing in our search for life beyond Earth? “Even if we don’t find life, we’ll finally be able to say how rare— or how common—it really might be.” PRESS RELEASE DATE April 7, 2025 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications, SETI Institute rmcdonald@seti.org ONLINE Press Release/Images https://tinyurl.com/yrkwrc4x Illustration of a hypothetical planet covered in water. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. April 7, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up empty- handed? A recent study led by ETH Zurich researchers including corresponding author and SETI Institute affiliate, Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, tackled this question, exploring what we can learn about life in the universe—even if we don’t detect signs of life or habitability. Using advanced statistical modeling, the research team sought to explore how many exoplanets scientists should observe and understand before declaring that life
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