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Telescope Uses Ripples in Space-Time to Detect a Huge Planet for the First Time

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed a distant planet located 40,000 light-years away using microlensing for the first time.
BBC Sky at Night Magazine on MSN

Who is Avi Loeb? Trump's lead UFO researcher talks alien life and what would happen if we find we're not alone

Astronomer Avi Loeb gives his thoughts on the prospect of finding signs of intelligent life beyond our Solar System.
BBC Sky at Night Magazine on MSN

How small can an Earth-like planet be and still host alien life? Scientists have used a genius trick to answer that very question

Study pinpoints which rocky worlds could hang on to a life-supporting atmosphere ...
The Argus

How radio signals transformed the search for alien life

Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful radio ...

James Webb telescope may have discovered a never-before-seen substance on Pluto and Titan

A new James Webb Space Telescope study has identified a very specific wavelength of light missing from both Pluto and ...
Space.com

Astronomers discover a potentially habitable planet just 25 light-years away. 'This one is exciting'

The planet, designated GJ 3378b, orbits the faint red dwarf star in the constellation of Camelopardalis, the Giraffe.
Scientific American

The White House goes all in on aliens with new UAP Science Advisory Council

This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence ...

Mysterious yellow crystals on Mars may soon have an explanation

NASA's Curiosity rover found pure sulfur crystals inside a rock after backing over and accidentally crushing it on May 30, ...

TESS just found a planet in a new way—and more may be hiding in its eight years of data

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting ...

4 Black Eggs Surfaced From the Dark Heart of the Ocean—With Alien Creatures Inside

A well-worn expression among oceanographers and others who explore the watery depths of planet Earth is that we humans “know the surface of Mars better than our ocean floors.” Covering more than 70 ...
New Scientist

This physicist is hunting for the biggest black hole in the universe

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

The 'Wonder Of The Caribbean' Is A Bizarre, Dangerous Lake With Supposed Alien-Like Creatures

An unusual destination in the Caribbean that some call the "eighth wonder of the world" is a scientific marvel with life ...