Dirk Schulze-Makuch – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:21:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 Ceres: The asteroid belt’s forgotten ocean world https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/ceres-the-asteroid-belts-forgotten-ocean-world https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/ceres-the-asteroid-belts-forgotten-ocean-world#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:21:03 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/ceres-the-asteroid-belts-forgotten-ocean-world

As the closest icy ocean world to Earth, Ceres may be a promising candidate in the search for signs of ancient life. Posted on Big Think.

]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/ceres-the-asteroid-belts-forgotten-ocean-world/feed 0 The hunt for alien technosignatures is getting a high-tech upgrade https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/the-hunt-for-alien-technosignatures-is-getting-a-high-tech-upgrade https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/the-hunt-for-alien-technosignatures-is-getting-a-high-tech-upgrade#respond Fri, 06 Jun 2025 10:18:06 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/the-hunt-for-alien-technosignatures-is-getting-a-high-tech-upgrade

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will image the southern sky using the largest digital camera ever built.

]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/the-hunt-for-alien-technosignatures-is-getting-a-high-tech-upgrade/feed 0 When And Where Did Life Really Begin? https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/when-and-where-did-life-really-begin Wed, 05 Feb 2025 21:16:59 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/02/when-and-where-did-life-really-begin

When and where did life begin? New research shows that time is even shorter than we thought, triggering thought provoking questions!

Posted at BigThink, direct link at:

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Posted on Big Think.

]]> A Promising Way to Detect Alien Life https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/a-promising-way-to-detect-alien-life Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:10:51 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/a-promising-way-to-detect-alien-life

Microbial motility as an amazingly simple biosignature to detect life on Mars and elsewhere (and dangerous pathogenic bacteria on Earth)

Posted on BigThink, Link through SearchforLifeintheUniverse.

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