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Nov 10, 2024 | 
msn.com | Adam Frank
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Adam Frank
Over the past three decades, astronomers have discovered planets orbiting Sun-like stars throughout the universe. This discovery ended 2,500 years of debate about whether worlds existed beyond our solar system, but it came with a shock. The most common kind of planet in the universe is the type of world that doesn’t exist in our small corner of the cosmos: what astronomers call ‘Super-Earths’ and ‘Sub-Neptunes’, planets with much greater masses than ours and which could, in theory, sustain life.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Adam Frank
Text size Line Spacing Comments Share Share Adam Frank Under pressure: what might life look like on another planet? Linkedin Messenger Email Over the past three decades, astronomers have discovered planets orbiting Sun-like stars throughout the universe. This discovery ended 2,500 years of debate about whether worlds existed beyond our solar system, but it came with a shock. The most common kind of planet in the universe is the type of world that doesn’t exist in our small corner of the...
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May 2, 2024 | 
skyatnightmagazine.com | Adam Frank
The more we learn about other worlds beyond Earth, the more we understand just how prevalent habitable conditions are elsewhere in the cosmos. And this increases our knowledge of where we might find life in the Universe. It also helps us look for it. Not only do we have a better grasp of what makes a planet habitable, we also have better tools to search for worlds with such conditions.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
newyorkfolk.com | James White |Adam Frank |Marcelo Gleiser |Evan Thompson
When I was a kid, I dreamed of transcendence even if I didn’t know to call it by that name. I walked through the world with my head in the stars, trading the industrial wastelands of New Jersey for pictures of distant galaxies, my leaky roof for books about the solar system. I spent hours in my room dreaming of space-suited astronauts bounding over alien landscapes. Whenever things were bad, I retreated into space and science.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Adam Frank |Walter Isaacson |Steve Martin |Harry Bliss
Solid data and reasoned conjecture strike a harmonious balance in a new SETI. A jocular title does not even hint at the real wonders of this cook’s tour of alien life. Astrophysicist Frank, author of Light of the Stars and The Constant Fire, has been obsessed with the idea of extraterrestrial life since childhood.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
pressdemocrat.com | Adam Frank
Are we alone? Is life around us a cosmic accident that only happened once on this lonely planet, making human beings the only technological civilization anywhere? Or is the universe teeming with life, and perhaps even intelligence and self-awareness? These questions have haunted humanity for millenniums. Science is now poised to take a fantastic leap forward in answering them. Over the next few decades, we will finally gain hard data that will help us answer our questions about alien life.
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Nov 11, 2023 | 
startribune.com | Adam Frank
Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• Are we alone? Is life around us a cosmic accident that only happened once on this lonely planet, making human beings the only technological civilization anywhere? Or is the universe teeming with life, and perhaps even intelligence and self-awareness? These questions have haunted humanity for millennia.
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Nov 11, 2023 | 
sentinelsource.com | Adam Frank
By Adam Frank Are we alone? Is life around us a cosmic accident that only happened once on this lonely planet, making human beings the only technological civilization anywhere? Or is the universe teeming with life, and perhaps even intelligence and self-awareness? Adam Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester and author of "The Little Book of Aliens." He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
poststar.com | Adam Frank
Are we alone? Is life around us a cosmic accident that only happened once on this lonely planet, making human beings the only technological civilization anywhere? Or is the universe teeming with life, and perhaps even intelligence and self-awareness? These questions have haunted humanity for millennia. Science is now poised to take a fantastic leap forward in answering them. Over the next few decades, we will finally gain hard data that will help us answer our questions about alien life.
