23 Feb 2019

So where ARE the aliens? New BBC podcast looks at what we know for sure

From The Podcast Hour, 12:15 pm on 23 February 2019

Do you believe extraterrestrials exist? Astronomer Seth Shostak explores what we do and don't know about potential life on other planets in the new BBC podcast So Where Are The Aliens?

Illustration of an alien lifeform

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  • Listen to the full 27-minute programme on the BBC website here.
Seth Shostak

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According to a recent study of 26,000 people in 24 different countries, around half of us do believe there's some other form of intelligent life beyond Earth.

And with hundreds of billions of other planets in our galaxy alone, there's no shortage of places to look.

Now chief astronomer for Silicon Valley's SETI Institute, Seth Shostak has devoted his career to searching for signs.

  • Listen to Seth Shostak 's 2015 conversation with Wallace Chapman here.