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342E-365-Tabby's Star
The mystery of Tabby's star began to unfold when in 2015 Dr. Tabetha S. Boyajian [boy-AA-jee-uhn] of Louisiana State University and her team publishe…
10 months, 1 week ago
854-Weird Planet Exotic Life?
Data are consistent with the hypothesis that the planet K2-18b is a Hycean planet with a warm liquid water ocean teaming with life and a thin hydroge…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
341E-364-Laser Surfing
When we find a planet which appears to have the chemical signs of living organisms in its atmosphere, the desire to take a close up look at it will b…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
853-Tardigrade
In the search for life on Mars, Europa, Titan, and elsewhere in the universe astro-biologists are scouring the Earth for creatures tough enough to fl…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
852-Landing On Mars
The good news is a Mars landing by human colonists and their equipment seems technically feasible given a large budget of cash and grit.
10 months, 4 weeks ago
339E-359-Ice World
Recently Dr. Yossi Shvartzvald led a team which published their discovery of an Earth sized planet using microlensing in the Astrophysical Journal Le…
11 months ago
851-Scientists Views Odds of Aliens
In a recent paper published in Nature Astronomy entitled “Surveys of the scientific community on the existence of extraterrestrial life” Dr. Peter V…
11 months ago
338E-357-Double Trouble
When I discovered 2014 JO25 with the NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on May 5, 2014, it appeared as a single point of light as it…
11 months, 1 week ago
850-Who Owns A Space Rock
Since there is a world wide market for meteorites some of which can be sold for millions of dollars, on line, the question of ownership becomes impor…
11 months, 1 week ago
337E-356-Seeds
When a fleet of interstellar spaceships leaves our solar system for a planet circling a nearby star the most important of all of the riches that huma…
11 months, 2 weeks ago