I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.

- Garik Israelian

Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?

- Garik Israelian

When discs form around stars, there is interaction of angular momentum between disc, planets and parent star, and this interaction affects the rotati…

- Garik Israelian

The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

- Garik Israelian

There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.

- Garik Israelian

If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.

- Garik Israelian

Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets - perhaps about 30% of them are planet-builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!

- Garik Israelian

It's not very fun to do spectroscopy.

- Garik Israelian

Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very wel…

- Garik Israelian