Lifeboat Foundation

Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Ph.D., P.G. is Professor at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Washington State University.

32 posts by Dirk Schulze-Makuch

• The Science of Aliens, Part V: How Would They Communicate? – September 13, 2021
• The Astrobiological Potential of Rogue Planets – August 24, 2021
• The Science of Aliens, Part 4: What Color Would Their Blood Be? – July 23, 2021
• Methane Detected at Enceladus May Be of Biological Origin – July 9, 2021
• Aliens May Already Have Discovered Us – June 23, 2021
• Life May Have Been More Likely to Originate on Mars Than on Earth – June 18, 2021
• The Science of Aliens, Part 3: Have They Overcome Their Savage Past, or Might They Want to Eat Us? – June 7, 2021
• Living Creatures Need Water. But Could They Make Do With Sulfuric Acid? – May 27, 2021
• Martian Life May Be Hiding in Islands of Habitability – May 20, 2021
• The Science of Aliens, Part 2: What Kind of Genetic Code Would Extraterrestrials Have? – May 10, 2021
• Could We Really All Be Martians? – April 30, 2021
• The Fuss Over Phosphorus – April 22, 2021
• All Eyes on Alpha Centauri – April 14, 2021
• The Science of Aliens, Part I: Would They Be Friendly, or Threatening? – April 6, 2021
• The Case (or Not) for Life in the Venusian Clouds – March 20, 2021
• We May Never Find Life on Mars—And That Could Be a Good Thing – March 12, 2021
• This Intriguing Signal From Alpha Centauri May (or May Not) Be a Planet – February 17, 2021
• Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought – February 10, 2021
• Arsenic and (Very) Old Life – January 29, 2021
• Artificial Intelligence: Cure for What Ails Us, or Looming Threat to the World? – January 19, 2021
• The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth? – January 5, 2021
• Astrobiology’s Biggest Stories of 2020 – December 18, 2020
• Early Earth Was No Inviting Blue Planet—It Was More Like Venus – December 11, 2020
• How Salt Water Could Fuel a Mars Mission – December 3, 2020
• A New Place to Look for Life on Mars – November 23, 2020
• The Most Hellish Planet Yet – November 13, 2020
• When Asteroid Impacts Are a Good Thing – October 14, 2020
• Two Dozen Exoplanets that Might be More Habitable than Earth – October 5, 2020
• More Lakes Found Under the Martian Ice – September 28, 2020
• The Likelihood of Life on Venus Just Increased Dramatically – September 14, 2020
• A New Tool to Detect Alien Biochemistry – September 1, 2020
• The Astrobiology of Alien Worlds – August 26, 2020