A new congressionally mandated report says NASA should refine its strategy and improve its tools to foster the study of…
Globular clusters are among the most fascinating celestial phenomena in the galaxy, packing a hideous amount of stars…
To date, scientists have catalogued more than 3,500 exoplanets, some of which may even be capable of fostering life.…
SETI enthusiasts have devised all sorts of complicated ways for us to find signs of alien life, but a new paper…
Rocky worlds larger than Earth are commonplace in the galaxy, and a few of them may even be habitable. Which poses an…
Venus, with its crushing atmospheric pressure and scorching surface temperatures, seems an unlikely place for life to…
Enceladus is one of the most fascinating objects in the Solar System. Parked in orbit around Saturn, the ice-covered…
It’s generally agreed that some kind of microbe will be the first form of life we discover on another planet, moon, or…
In the year 2030, a powerful radio transmission originating from Earth will arrive at a potentially habitable exoplanet…
Astronomer Abel Méndez from the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico has put together a…
Humans have had such a dramatic impact on Earth that some scientists say we’ve kickstarted a new geological era known…
We have yet to find any traces of extraterrestrial intelligence, a vexing problem known as the Fermi Paradox. A new…
Launched in the late 1970s, the two Voyager space probes were equipped with a golden record containing sounds and…
Yesterday, news made the rounds that a team of Russian astronomers had detected an unusually strong signal emanating…
Astronomers using the RATAN-600 radio telescope in the Russian Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia have detected an unusual…
Jupiter is often referred to as a “failed star,” leading some futurists to wonder if our descendants might set it…
Since the 1960s, the Drake Equation has been used to predict how many communicative extraterrestrial civilizations…
The disturbing Fermi Paradox suggests we should have made contact with an extraterrestrial civilization by now, yet we…
Red dwarfs are the most common type of star in the galaxy. But new research suggests that life within these systems may…
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