What If We Find Nothing In Our Search For Life Beyond Earth?
April 7, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up empty-handed? A recent study led by ETH Zurich researchers including corresponding author and SETI Institute affiliate, Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, tackled this question, exploring what we can learn about life in the universe—even if we don't detect signs of life or habitability. Using advanced statistical modeling, the research team sought to explore how many ex…