By the end
What you'll build
- Explain the ingredients every known biosphere requires and why liquid water is the headline requirement
- Compute a star's habitable-zone inner and outer edges from its luminosity, in Python
- Read a transit light curve and derive a planet's size from the dip in starlight
- Compare the biosignature case for Mars, Europa and Enceladus and say what each mission is actually looking for
- Reason quantitatively about the Drake equation and understand what SETI can and cannot tell us
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
21 lessons across 4 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.