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Richards: The Most Earth-Like Planet Is Still … Mars

With the discovery of large numbers of exoplanets in the last twenty years, does Earth look as privileged as it once did? Read More ›
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Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Niederhofe.

Bijan Nemati on the Search for Habitable Planets

One of the most exciting areas of space research is the search for Earth-like planets around other stars. Read More ›
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Photo: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter image (2015), by NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / Arizona State University [Public domain].

Bijan Nemati on Another Big Space Telescope, and Our Privileged Planet

Nemati describes how the instrument his company is building for the telescope is designed to aid in the search for earth-like planets beyond our solar system. Read More ›
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Photo: Spiral galaxy NGC 7469, by ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. S. Evans.

Astrophysicist Bijan Nemati: Why Intelligent Design Matters

Born and raised in Iran, Nemati moved to the United States shortly before the Iranian revolution, and became an atheist in college. Read More ›
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Ghost Nebula
Photo: Ghost Nebula, by NASA, ESA, and STScI/Acknowledgment: H. Arab (University of Strasbourg).

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Challenges the Evidence for Cosmological Fine-Tuning

Hossenfelder’s strongest argument is that many fine-tuning parameters cannot in fact be quantified. Read More ›
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Medved, Richards Ask: Are We Alone in the Universe?

If life in the universe is singular, if we’re it and there is no other life, whether intelligent or otherwise, what’s the bad news about that, and what’s the good news? Read More ›

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