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At Mind Matters News: Among 5000 known exoplanets, there are some really strange ones

To sum up, whatever we see or read about planets in science fiction, something out there is likely stranger still. It will be most interesting to see how many of the more conventional exoplanets have life and if there is in fact a reliable formula for predicting it. Those who claim that Earth is just an ordinary planet are certainly wrong — but is Earth unique? The universe is fine-tuned, as is Earth, and that would be an argument for life on exoplanets. Read More ›

At Mind Matters News: NASA develops a scale for assessing the chances of ET life

The idea is to give media some idea of the level of confidence in what the apparent signal might be telling us — biological activity or just chemistry? Read More ›