The Spacecraft that Discovers Life Around Another Star

How might a future unmanned interstellar mission search for, and interact with, life on a distant exoplanet?

Christopher Carroll
Nov 3 · 5 min read
Artistic depiction of an interstellar space probe around a distant exoplanet. Credit: Elreviae (image)

Building an Autonomous Space Probe

Carl Sagan, speaking at a NASA press conference in 1990, declared that mankind had “completed a preliminary…

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