{"id":795442,"date":"2025-04-18T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T20:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=795442"},"modified":"2025-04-18T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T20:56:10","slug":"claims-of-alien-life-are-overhyped-and-miss-the-real-accomplishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=795442","title":{"rendered":"Claims of alien life are overhyped \u2013 and miss the real accomplishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Real aliens may not be so obvious, if we ever find them<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Naeblys\/Alamy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re the kind of person who keeps an eye on astronomical news \u2013 or glances at any news site \u2013 you may have seen a story about hints of a sign of alien life on an exoplanet called K2-18b. The claim is controversial, but much of the coverage was positive. The problem, I think, is <em>Star Trek<\/em>, or any other science fiction you might care to mention. Thanks to the budgets that govern television, we\u2019re used to aliens being obvious; they\u2019re usually about 6 feet\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2477392-claims-of-alien-life-are-overhyped-and-miss-the-real-accomplishment\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real aliens may not be so obvious, if we ever find them Naeblys\/Alamy If you\u2019re the kind of person who keeps an eye on astronomical news \u2013 or glances at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":795443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/795443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}