Here is more background on this area of search:

“We could be just a few decades from proving if there is life elsewhere,” says Heller, a post-doctoral fellow at McMaster’s Origins Institute who worked with Pudritz, a professor of physics and astronomy and director of the Origins Institute. “For all this time, we have been looking on other planets, when the answer could be on a moon.”

Exoplanets are being counted in the thousands since the development of new, non-visual methods that allow scientists to prove their existence by measuring light patterns from sun-like stars that dim slightly as the planets pass in front of them in orbit.

The non visual methods may be an ingenious way to search a broader array of environments.  It may be less like the needle in a haystack method of SETI and may yield interesting results.

We hope you like the video and we will keep following developments in the search for alien life!

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