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NASA's in Trouble
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NASA is the primary means through which US …
6 hours ago
Crowded or Lonely? The Statistics of Alien Life
New research paper from the Cool Worlds Lab! Today we explore the implications of a classic result in statistics but applied to alien life for the fi…
7 hours ago
How to Flip a Planet
Many exoplanets, including hot-Jupiters, have been observed to orbit the star the wrong way round, in retrograde orbits relative to the star's rotati…
8 hours ago
A JuMBO Mystery - This Shouldn't Happen!
Some startling discoveries from JWST and now Euclid and shaking up our ideas of planet formation and evolution - free floating worlds that really tax…
9 hours ago
Cool Worlds Research in 2017: A Look Ahead!
It's time to take a break for a few weeks but before we do, here's a look ahead at what research we'll be getting up to in 2017! Many of us are headi…
10 hours ago
The Great American Eclipse 2017
Get ready! On August 21st 2017, Americans will be treated to a rare total Solar eclipse. From coast to coast, everyone in the US should be able to se…
11 hours ago
A Real Tractor Beam
NYU Professor of Physics, David Grier, dropped in to tell us about his team's amazing work building the world's first real life tractor beam. Just li…
12 hours ago
Are Dyson Spheres Physically Possible?
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The idea of Dyson Spheres was a radical pro…
13 hours ago
Alien signal received from HD 164595?
Dr Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer of the SETI Institute, was at the New England Fall Astronomy Festival with me last week and I took the opportunity…
15 hours ago
Do "Grabby Aliens" Solve The Fermi Paradox?
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16 hours ago