Illustrations: Cam Floyd

Alien Nations: Why Life on Other Planets Will Resemble Ours

Hard science offers a remarkably detailed portrait of how extraterrestrials may live — and clues on where our own civilization is headed

Steve LeVine
Jan 28 · 27 min read

SScientists, now routinely detecting potentially habitable planets in space, are the closest yet to determining the truth about aliens…

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I am Editor at Large at Medium with interests in ferreting out the whys for the turbulence all around us. Ex-Axios, ex-Quartz, ex-WSJ, ex-NYT, ex-FT.

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