Videos | April 17, 2024

Harvard Professor Avi Loeb on Signs of Life Beyond Earth

Loeb is on a mission to answer the question: are we alone in the universe?

Baird Jr. professor of science Avi Loeb explains meteorites, interstellar objects, and his ocean expedition to find materials left over from a meteorite in the Pacific Ocean.

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Medium | Avi Loeb

https://avi-loeb.medium.com

Harvard & Smithsonian

https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/more_news.html

The Galileo Project

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/research/galileo-project

The Galileo Project homepage

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo

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