Searching for Life in All the Right Places
Listening Post Scientists and amateurs use radio telescopes at the Allen Telescope Array to listen for alien transmissions. Redding Record Searchlight/ZumapressWhy we're closer than ever to the discovery that will change everything Curious about just how astrobiologists plan to make good on their goal to find life in space in the next 20 years? We've compiled some of the coolest upcoming search-for-life projects we could find--check out our feature on the subject here, and browse the gallery below for a guide to some of the most impressive efforts directed at finding extraterrestrial life. Click to launch our guide to the current efforts dedicated to finding life in space. The first will take place later this year, when Russian scientists will tap Earth's final frontier, the subglacial Antarctic lakes. Any life they find under 2.5 miles of ice in the ancient isolated waters of Lake Vostok won't technically be extraterrestrial, of course, but it...