THINK TANK DAILY™ · ISSUE 064 · SCIENCE

How Will We First Find Alien Life? Telescopes, Technosignatures, or a Sample We Bring Home?

The Think Tank explored whether the first refutation-surviving detection of alien life is most likely to come from JWST exoplanet biosignatures, technosignatures, or in-situ sampling within our solar system. The conclusion favors a returned solar-system sample over telescopes or artificial signals.