Astronomy
When Did Life Start in the Universe?
Interstellar xenia, or the welcoming of cosmic strangers, could solve this mystery
Stories by Avi Loeb
Cosmology
Was Our Universe Created in a Laboratory?
Developing quantum-gravity technologies may elevate us to a “class A” civilization, capable of creating a baby universe
Extraterrestrial Life
Microbes, Natural Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence
Humanity’s greatest achievement might be building our successors
Extraterrestrial Life
How to Search for Life as We Don’t Know It
Much of astrobiology is focused on looking for organisms with chemistry similar to ours—but there could well be other kinds
Extraterrestrial Life
Astronomers Should Be Willing to Look Closer at Weird Objects in the Sky
The Galileo Project seeks to train telescopes on unidentified aerial phenomena
Extraterrestrial Life
Note to Branson and Bezos: Extraterrestrials Will Not Be Impressed
If they exist, they’ll find our puny forays into space completely insignificant
Extraterrestrial Life
Looking for Interstellar Monuments
An ancient civilization from a distant star could have created immortal machines to roam the Milky Way and keep its legacy alive
Extraterrestrial Life
To Look or Not to Look? That Is the Question
The search for technological relics of extraterrestrial civilizations will inspire the public and attract talent to the field of astronomy
Extraterrestrial Life
When Will We Hear from Extraterrestrials?
Project Galileo could make that happen sooner rather than later
Extraterrestrial Life
To Understand UAP, We Need Megapixel Imagery
If any of them represent advanced technology, high-resolution photographs might tell us whether they’re metaphorically labeled “Made in China” or “Made on Exoplanet X”...
Extraterrestrial Life
Announcing a New Plan for Solving the Mystery of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
The newly organized Galileo Project will use a three-pronged approach to replace unreliable eyewitness reports with reproducible scientific observations
Space & Physics
How to Tell if Extraterrestrial Visitors Are Friend or Foe
They’ll most likely be robotic and guided by AI—so we’ll need our own AI to figure them out
Space & Physics
How Humanity Can Earn the Respect of Extraterrestrials
Favoring science over war would demonstrate our suitability to join a galactic club of civilizations
Space & Physics
What We Can Learn from Studying UFOs
If they’re really aliens—and they’re benevolent—studying them could potentially transform the prospects for human knowledge and progress
Space & Physics
A Possible Link between ‘Oumuamua and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
If some UAP turn out to be extraterrestrial technology, they could be dropping sensors for a subsequent craft to tune into. What if ‘Oumuamua is such a craft?
Space & Physics
How to Detect Heat from Extraterrestrial Probes in Our Solar System
We could do it with the James Webb Space Telescope—but we'd also need to return to the unfiltered curiosity we had as teenagers
Space & Physics
Searching for City Lights on Other Planets
There’s a detectable difference between a planet shining with reflected light and a planet glowing with its own artificial illumination
Behavior
Creative Thinking in both Science and the Arts Is Not for the Faint of Heart
As Oscar Wilde famously observed: Be yourself; everyone else is already taken
Black Holes
Death by Primordial Black Hole
If such an object a mere 1,000 times bigger than an atom passed through your body, the result would not be pretty
Policy
Creative Thinking in both Science and the Arts Is Not for the Faint of Heart
To put it another way, be yourself; everyone else is already taken
