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
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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
Planetary Science
Crumbly Mars Rock, Not Hardware Flaws, Scuttled Perseverance’s First Sample Attempt
After an alarming failure, the rover is set to continue its mission to retrieve specimens for eventual return to Earth
Extraterrestrial Life
Martian Crust Could Sustain Life through Radiation
Meteorites reveal that so long as groundwater is present, the Martian subsurface is habitable
Extraterrestrial Life
Future Space Travel Might Require Mushrooms
Mycologist Paul Stamets discusses the potential extraterrestrial uses of fungi, including terraforming planets, building human habitats—and providing psilocybin therapy to astronauts...
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
Harvard’s Avi Loeb Thinks We Should Study UFOs—and He’s Not Wrong
As a SETI scientist, I’m grateful that he has the freedom—and the guts—to go where few would dare to go
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
The Sciences
Astronomers Rename Famous Exoplanets
More than 30 worlds have new names drawn from world mythology, literature and history
The Sciences
Do We Live in a Star Wars Universe?
Tis the season for science fiction fun, but could we even tell if the universe around us was filled with galactic empires and rebel forces?
The Sciences
Astronomers Skeptical Over "Planet X" Claims
Two controversial new studies suggest the discovery of large objects at the outer reaches of the solar system
Ceres Is Cloudy, with a Chance of Cryovolcanoes
New findings reveal a crater’s vaporous hazes, and hint at the dwarf planet’s possible origin in the outer solar system
A Tale of 2 Habitable Planets
New study explores how life on one exoplanet could spread to its neighbor
The Sciences
Earth as an Alien World
Remote sensing can produce spectacular, and wholly alien, views of our homeworld.
Space & Physics
Graphic: A World of Exoplanet Discoveries
What we know about alien worlds—and what’s coming next
The Sciences
500-Million-Year-Old Brains and Life in the Universe
A new study provides substantial support for earlier claims of 520-million-year-old arthropod brain systems, raising interesting questions about the nature of brains, life and intelligence in the cosmos...
The Sciences
Early Origins for Life Raises Major Planetary Puzzles
A recent claim for evidence of life on Earth as early as 4.1 billion years ago runs headlong into prevailing theories about a period of heavy asteroid impacts and the reshuffling of the young solar system's orbital architecture...
