Our Alien Earth: NASA+ Series Exploring Life-Detection in Earth Analog Environments

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NASA+ presents Our Alien Earth, a five-episode documentary that follows NASA scientists into extreme Earth environments to test life-detection technologies and link discoveries to future space exploration, featuring Dr. Amanda Stockton in Iceland, Dr. Abigail Allwood in Greenland, Dr. Richard Camilli around Santorini, four teams in Mauna Loa lava tubes building AR field models, and Dr. Cynthia Dinwiddie mapping subsurface life in Alaska, directed by Mike Toillion, with updates as of February 5, 2026, and available on NASA+ and YouTube along with introductory astrobiology content.

Our Alien Earth, a NASA+ Original Series - NASA Science
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Our Alien Earth, a NASA+ Original Series - NASA Science

The search for life begins at home. In this NASA+ documentary series, follow NASA scientists into the field as they explore the most extreme environments on Earth, testing technologies that directly inform NASA missions to detect and discover extraterrestrial life in the universe.