_{Discovering Design in Nature}

Authors

Doug Axe — Douglas Axe

Günter Bechly

Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap — Michael J. Behe

David Berlinski

Eric Cassell

David Coppedge

William A. Dembski

Michael Denton

Michael Flannery

Ann Gauger

Howard Glicksman

Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022 — Guillermo Gonzalez

Eric Hedin

Cornelius Hunter — Cornelius G. Hunter

Stephen J. Iacoboni

David Klinghoffer in 2021 — David Klinghoffer

Carl Linnaeus

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Casey Luskin

Andrew McDiarmid

Photo by Casey Sernaqué

Jonathan McLatchie

Stephen C. Meyer

Brian Miller

Walter Myers III

Paul Nelson at Car Museum — Paul Nelson

Denyse O’Leary

Emily Sandico

Granville Sewell

Robert Shedinger

Geoffrey Simmons

Wesley J. Smith

Rob Stadler

Neil Thomas

Jonathan Wells

John G. West

Daniel Witt

Jonathan Witt

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extraterrestrial light sail

Photo: Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS, by ESA/Hubble, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. — This is a Hubble Space telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on 21 July 21 2025, when the comet was 365 million kilometres from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet has a teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off its solid, icy nucleus. Because Hubble was tracking the comet moving along a hyperbolic trajectory, the stationary background stars are streaked in the exposure. [Image description: At the center of the image is a comet that appears as a teardrop-shaped bluish cocoon of dust coming off the comet’s solid, icy nucleus and seen against a black background. The comet appears to be heading to the bottom left corner of the image. About a dozen short, light blue diagonal streaks are seen scattered across the image, which are from background stars that appeared to move during the exposure because the telescope was tracking the moving comet.]

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post

Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 13, 2025

Categories
Astronomy
Planetology
Tagged
, 3I/ATLAS, alien technology, artificial intelligence, arXiv, astrobiology, astronomers, Avi Loeb, Big Think, Columbia University, David Kipping, extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrial light sail, George Gaylord Simpson, interstellar object, Medium, Oumuamua, technology, UFOs, Voyager spacecraft}

Astrobiology as a Secular Quest for Meaning

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 13, 2025

Astronomy, Planetology

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I don’t think this stuff does any harm — as long as it is understood as drama and not given undue importance in science or philosophy. Read More ›