exoplanet research

Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets | Lex Fridman Podcast #195

Lex Fridman

Clara Sousa-Silva, a quantum astrochemist at Harvard specializing in spectroscopy, joins Lex Fridman to discuss her groundbreaking 2020 research identifying phosphine in Venus's atmosphere as a potential biosignature. The discovery was made using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter …

David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds | Lex Fridman Podcast #355

Lex Fridman

In this episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast, astrophysicist David Kipping explores the search for extraterrestrial life and intelligent civilizations through his research on "cool worlds"—exoplanets with temperatures suitable for moons, rings, and biology. While early exoplanet discoveries were domin …