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An astrobiologist and a director on the joys and challenges of filming space science.

Why should Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn get all the attention?

Colonizing the galaxy is the highest good humanity could achieve.

Absent signs of life, astronomers are starting to look for extraterrestrial nuclear wars and pandemics.

We have ethical and aesthetic reasons to leave Mars alone.

What is it good for?

This woman has the best job in the inner solar system.

The chemistry of life is an extension of the chemistry of the Earth.

Our recent article “Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence?” stirred up quite a response.

Finding life on other worlds will help answer lingering questions about natural selection.