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Cool Worlds

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…

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The “Crisis in Cosmology” EXPLAINED 2026-11-08 · 33m
The Doomsday Argument | When Will Civilization End? 2026-11-08 · 10m
An Idea So Crazy It Might Just Work... 2026-11-08 · 38m
Is Time an Illusion? | Prof Sean Carroll 2026-11-08 · 6m
Shocking Result from DESI Stuns Cosmology 2026-11-08 · 19m
Project Starshot | New Research on Relativistic Light Sails 2026-11-08 · 12m
Are UFOs Legitimate Science? 2026-11-08 · 36m
Will We Run Out Of Lithium? 2026-11-08 · 40m
The Drake Equation After Sixty Years | Part 1 of 2 2026-11-08 · 32m
Disk Detectives 2026-11-07 · 7m
A Machine That Can Predict Exoplanets 2026-11-07 · 8m
The Birth-Death Drake Equation | Part 2 of 2 2026-11-07 · 34m
Is Moore's Law Ending? 2026-11-07 · 8m
Nobel Prize Physics 2017 for Gravitational Waves! | Nick Stone 2026-11-07 · 18m
Why We Might Live in a "Barely Habitable" Universe 2026-11-07 · 22m
A MILLION MPH 2026-11-07 · 34m
A Cloaking Device for Planets 2026-11-07 · 9m
Why We Haven't Found Any Earth-Like Planets 2026-11-07 · 47m
Do planets remember how they formed? 2026-11-07 · 17m
The Dawn of Immortal Space Telescopes 2026-11-07 · 19m
Freakish One-Offs in Astronomy 2026-11-07 · 33m
The Truth About JWST Detecting Alien Life... 2026-11-07 · 36m
Extremely Large Telescopes | Moiya McTier 2026-11-07 · 13m
New Discoveries on Wormholes Are Changing Everything 2026-11-07 · 35m
How Big Is The Universe? 2026-11-07 · 39m
Bayesian Worlds 2026-11-07 · 7m
10 Steps for Applying to Graduate School 2026-11-07 · 35m
My Thoughts on Artemis II 2026-11-07 · 12m
Why Don't We Live Around a Red Dwarf? 2026-11-07 · 24m
Exomoons and Earth Twins QandA 2026-11-07 · 8m
Semantics 2026-11-07 · 17m
The Habitable Zone: Undergraduate Outreach Project 2026-11-07 · 12m
Is It Possible to Learn The Language of Planets? 2026-11-07 · 39m
Why We Might NEVER Detect Alien Life 2026-11-07 · 33m
Discovery of a Jupiter Twin: QandA 2026-11-07 · 9m
What If Intelligence Re-Emerges? 2026-11-07 · 34m
We're Finally Unlocking the "Cosmic Shoreline" 2026-11-07 · 24m
Reflections from an Alien World | Tiffany Jansen 2026-11-07 · 9m
How to Characterize Proxima b's Atmosphere 2026-11-07 · 9m
How Astronomers Can Use Origami to Find Exomoons 2026-11-07 · 25m
Is Messaging Aliens a Bad Idea? 2026-11-07 · 35m
Did we find an exomoon? 2026-11-07 · 19m
Why Starship Could Transform Astronomy 2026-11-07 · 32m
The Star That Can't Exist 2026-11-07 · 27m
How Thermodynamics Holds Back Negative Carbon Tech 2026-11-07 · 33m
What's Stopping Us From Building a Warp Drive? 2026-11-07 · 32m
Are Alien "Lurkers" Watching You? 2026-11-07 · 36m
Why Technological Civilizations Might Be Insanely Rare 2026-11-07 · 24m
Where are the exomoons? 2026-11-07 · 7m
Is the Solar System Special? 2026-11-07 · 30m
New Discoveries from Kepler 2026-11-07 · 9m
The Problem With "The Rare Earth Hypothesis" 2026-11-07 · 32m
Documentary Shoot | Behind the Scenes 2026-11-07 · 9m
Why Finding Aliens Could Doom Humanity 2026-11-07 · 35m
Eyeball Earths 2026-11-07 · 12m
What the Hell Happened to Venus? 2026-11-07 · 34m
Discovery of a Jupiter Twin! 2026-11-07 · 7m
The Genius Who Thought Aliens Lived in the Sun 2026-11-06 · 24m
The Fate of Our Sun 2026-11-06 · 37m
The Star That Shouldn't Exist 2026-11-06 · 23m
The Ultra-Cool Dwarf: TRAPPIST-1 | Elisabeth Newton 2026-11-06 · 7m
Listening for Alien Civilizations at a Temporal "Waterhole" 2026-11-06 · 12m
Some Good News 2026-11-06 · 14m
Outlasting the Universe 2026-11-06 · 27m
The Wow! Signal After 45 Years 2026-11-06 · 36m
Does Life's Early Appearance Mean it's Easy? 2026-11-06 · 9m
How Does ChatGPT Do on a College Level Astrophysics Exam? 2026-11-06 · 37m
How to Destroy a Nuke Anywhere on Earth 2026-11-06 · 23m
Why Black Holes Break The Universe 2026-11-06 · 29m
Why All Mirrors Are Lying to You 2026-11-06 · 12m
The Fermi Paradox Has An Incredibly Simple Solution 2026-11-06 · 36m
A Theory for Tabby's Star (Without Aliens) | Metzger and Stone 2026-11-06 · 21m
Traversable Wormholes 2026-11-06 · 7m
We Discovered a New Exomoon Candidate!! 2026-11-06 · 38m
NASA's in Trouble 2026-11-06 · 29m
Crowded or Lonely? The Statistics of Alien Life 2026-11-06 · 28m
How to Flip a Planet 2026-11-06 · 8m
A JuMBO Mystery - This Shouldn't Happen! 2026-11-06 · 19m
Does Quantum Entanglement Allow for Faster-Than-Light Communication? 2026-11-06 · 37m
Juno Explained 2026-11-06 · 9m
Cool Worlds Research in 2017: A Look Ahead! 2026-11-06 · 7m
The Great American Eclipse 2017 2026-11-06 · 7m
A Tale of Scientific Integrity 2026-11-06 · 36m
A Real Tractor Beam 2026-11-06 · 9m
Are Dyson Spheres Physically Possible? 2026-11-06 · 25m
In Defense of Science 2026-11-06 · 18m
Alien signal received from HD 164595? 2026-11-06 · 7m
Do "Grabby Aliens" Solve The Fermi Paradox? 2026-11-06 · 27m
Classifying Worlds 2026-11-06 · 7m
The Question That Keeps Me Awake At Night 2026-11-06 · 27m
The Signatures of Alien Life… or Not | Tiffany Jansen 2026-11-06 · 9m
The K2-18b Video You've Been Waiting For 2026-11-06 · 49m
Jupiter: Friend or Foe? | Elisa Quintana 2026-11-06 · 7m
Climate Emergency? Global Sea Ice at Anomalously Low Levels 2026-11-06 · 9m
Proxima b QandA - is Proxima b tidally locked? 2026-11-06 · 10m
The First Civilization to Emerge in the Galaxy 2026-11-06 · 33m
Interstellar Propulsion Technologies - RANKED! 2026-11-06 · 32m
How often does life start on other worlds? 2026-11-06 · 9m
Could Quark Stars be the Engines of Self-Replicating Strange Matter? 2026-11-06 · 34m
IT'S HAPPENING!! RIGHT NOW! 2026-11-06 · 12m
Why Going Faster-Than-Light Leads to Time Paradoxes 2026-11-06 · 33m
Proxima Planet Hunt 2026-11-06 · 8m
1000 Subs Thank-you + Channel Mission 2026-11-06 · 6m
JWST Reveals Exoplanets As Never Seen Before 2026-11-06 · 21m
The Most Mysterious Star | Prof Jason Wright 2026-11-06 · 8m
The Odds of Life - THIS CHANGED MY MIND 2026-11-05 · 28m
How Many Planets in the Universe? | Part 2: Our Universe 2026-11-05 · 9m
Could 3I/ATLAS Be Technological? 2026-11-05 · 33m
Can We Engineer The Sun? 2026-11-05 · 29m
Proxima b: Transits, Habitability and How to Get There! 2026-11-05 · 10m
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