Cool Worlds
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Space, astronomy, exoplanets, astroengineering and the search for extraterrestrial life & intelligence. The Cool Worlds Lab (http://coolworldslab.com), based at the Department of Astronomy, Columbia University, is a team of astronomers seeking to discover and understand alien worlds, particularly those where temperatures are cool enough for life, led by Professor David Kipping.

What to Make of the Detection Claim of Dark Matter
Cool Worlds · 269K views · 1 day ago

AI Has Poisoned Everything
Cool Worlds · 262K views · 12 days ago

Why Finding Aliens Could Doom Humanity
Cool Worlds · 281K views · 2 months ago

Why Don't We Live Around a Red Dwarf?
Cool Worlds · 745K views · 5 years ago

The Genius Who Thought Aliens Lived in the Sun
Cool Worlds · 205K views · 1 month ago

A Journey to the End of the Universe
Cool Worlds · 10M views · 7 years ago

Why Intelligent Life May Be Impossible Around Most Stars
Cool Worlds · 601K views · 1 year ago

Why We May Be Surrounded by Older Alien Civilizations
Cool Worlds · 3M views · 5 years ago

Could Quark Stars be the Engines of Self-Replicating Strange Matter?
Cool Worlds · 593K views · 2 years ago

What If Intelligence Re-Emerges?
Cool Worlds · 937K views · 5 years ago

The First Civilization to Emerge in the Galaxy
Cool Worlds · 1.8M views · 4 years ago

Does Quantum Entanglement Allow for Faster-Than-Light Communication?
Cool Worlds · 1.6M views · 4 years ago

Galactic Colonization
Cool Worlds · 640K views · 6 years ago

The Ambiguity Problem
Cool Worlds · 215K views · 2 years ago

An Event So Deadly it Makes Parts of the Galaxy Inhospitable
Cool Worlds · 1.1M views · 3 years ago

Outlasting the Universe
Cool Worlds · 1.2M views · 2 years ago