Most scientists think the first interstellar visitor to our solar system has a natural explanation. Harvard professor Avi Loeb makes the case for an alien origin. In October 2017, scientists spotted an interstellar object in…
Since the advent of analog TVs, channel 37 has always been static. Here’s why. A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. I’m…
Are we alone? That’s one of the most fascinating questions in the universe, and yet no scientist is able to answer it. In fact, most astronomers have intentionally distanced themselves from work related to SETI, or search…
During his junior year at Scarsdale High School in New York, Wolf Cukier landed a two-month internship with NASA. So during the summer of 2019, he traveled down to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in…
Stay with me on this one. According to news reports, Britain’s former first astronaut has recently indicated that there could be alien beings living among us on Earth: “It’s possible they’re here right now and we…
When the first sign of intelligent life first visits us from space, it won’t be a giant saucer hovering over New York. More likely, it will be an alien civilization’s trash. Avi Loeb, the chair…
Last year’s mysterious outburst of deep-space light flashes was even more frenzied than previously thought, a new study reports. On Aug. 26, 2017, astronomers with the Breakthrough Listen project — a $100 million effort to…
Aliens definitely exist, Britain’s first astronaut has said — and it’s possible they’re living among us on Earth but have gone undetected so far. Helen Sharman, who visited the Soviet Mir space station in 1991,…
Are there really aliens? “This is a question that has plagued scientists and enthusiasts for decades – how would you react if an astronaut himself revealed that he saw an alien creature when he was…
From time to time here at Answers in Genesis we get inquiries about a telescope called LUCIFER that the Vatican supposedly owns. This story has been circulating around the internet for nearly a decade. It certainly sounds…
The most precise 3-D map of our Milky Way galaxy has been revealed by astronomers. The 3-D Milky Way map was created using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space probe that’s been scanning the stars…
70,000 years ago, a nomadic star came within a light-year of the Sun, likely sending dozens of comets and asteroids tumbling out of the solar system. Around 70,000 years ago, a supervolcano named Toba erupted,…
A new documentary follows the 30-year cosmic quest by US space enthusiast John Shepherd. What drove him to beam messages and music, from Can to Coltrane, into space? In the mid-1960s, when he was a…