Will We Actually Find Alien Life In Our Lifetime? | Dr. Natasha Latouf, NASA Astrobiologist
Dr. Natasha Latouf is an astrobiologist, NASA Fellow, and PhD physicist studying how we could detect Earth-like life on nearby Earth-like planets.
Expect to learn what astrobiology actually is, how scientists search for biosignatures, why oxygen is both useful and dangerous, why UFOs and UAPs probably are not aliens, and what future telescopes may be able to detect in the atmospheres of small rocky planets.
We also talk about Dr. Latouf’s BARBIE code, K2-18b, extremophiles, Mars, Venus, viruses, whether life may be almost impossible to fully kill, and whether we might confirm alien life in our lifetime.
Hosted by Dr. Dakotah Tyler.
Lead with curiosity.
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Dr. Natasha Latouf is an astrobiologist, NASA Fellow, and PhD physicist studying how we could detect Earth-like life on nearby Earth-like planets.
Expect to learn what astrobiology actually is, how scientists search for biosignatures, why oxygen is both useful and dangerous, why UFOs and UAPs probably are not aliens, and what future telescopes may be able to detect in the atmospheres of small rocky planets.
We also talk about Dr. Latouf’s BARBIE code, K2-18b, extremophiles, Mars, Venus, viruses, whether life may be almost impossible to fully kill, and whether we might confirm alien life in our lifetime.
Hosted by Dr. Dakotah Tyler.
Lead with curiosity.
2026-07-15
75 min
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