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Photo credit: NASA/John Kraus.

How Rare Is Earth? Ask Intelligent Design

Will the Nancy Roman Space Telescope help us find other habitable worlds elsewhere in our galaxy? Absolutely. Read More ›
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Photo: Nancy Roman Space Telescope, by NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Intelligent Design Enriches Space Exploration

I am delighted to begin a two-part conversation with physicist Dr. Bijan Nemati about his work on the Nancy Roman Space Telescope. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Spencer Thomas from Snohomish, United States, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

To Do His Real Job, ET Doesn’t Need to Exist

The only possible conclusion to draw is this: What gives humans importance is not found in our genes. Read More ›
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Image: An artist imagines exoplanet K2-18b, by Arndt Stelter, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fact Check: Did Scientists Really Detect Evidence of Life on Exoplanet K2-18b?

The molecule is dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or dimethyl disulfide (DMDS), and on Earth its sole known source is life (specifically, marine phytoplankton algae). Read More ›
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Photo source: Uncommon Knowledge, via YouTube (screenshot).

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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Image source: NASA.

What’s Next in the Search for Habitable Worlds?

Are we common or rare? You can be on either side of the question and still be excited about the search for habitable planets capable of harboring life. 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: An elephantfish, by Devon Bowen, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Noise Cancellation: A Remarkable Design Solution in Biology

The principle behind this biological methodology can be extended to every case in biology where an organism needs to discriminate signals from self. 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 ›
Artist’s impression of exoplanet orbiting two stars
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Image: An exoplanet (artist’s rendering), by ESA/Hubble [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biominerals Could Predict Life on Exoplanets

One-third of minerals — chemical solids whose atoms are highly ordered — are created directly or indirectly by life forms. Read More ›

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