Gliese 581d is a potentially habitable planet just 20 light-years away. In 20 years we could know if it delivers on that potential. DarinK/deviantART/CC License Exactly four centuries ago this year, Galileo sent a letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany to implore the powers-that-be of the time …
During the summer of 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi posed a question to his colleagues over lunch, "Don't you ever wonder where everybody is?" Fermi was referring to alien life. In the 4.4 billion years it took a species capable of space travel to form on …
The quantity of organic molecules discovered on Mars is not entirely explained by the hypothesis of cosmic dust: here is a new study. Asteroids and comets may have played a more important role than what was thought to supply Mars with organic molecules (the basics of life). So far, astronomers believed …
Japanese space agency's mission aims to uncover how moons of Mars formed The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced a mission to visit the two moons of Mars and return a rock sample to Earth. It’s a plan to uncover both the mystery of the …
In comments that will likely fuel ardent Ufologists worldwide, a senior NASA official has conceded that the existence of alien life is “much more likely to be out there than we thought before.” Thomas Zurbuchen, an astrophysicist and associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, told Boston University he …
Featured Image: Avi Loeb poses in the observatory near his office in Cambridge, Mass. His theory about an alien spaceship has made the rounds in the media and caused controversy in the academic community. (Adam Glanzman/For The Washington Post) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Before he started the whole …
Two ancient nematodes from the Pleistocene age are moving and eating normally again for the first time since the Pleistocene age. The roundworms, original from two areas of Siberia, came back to life in Petri dishes, according to a scientific study. Russian scientists from the Institute of Physico-Chemical …
SCIENTISTS trying to grow our body parts inside pigs to end the shortage of organs needed for transplants could inadvertently make animals with human brains, it has emerged. It was revealed today that in a futuristic Dr Frankenstein-like experiment, scientisist in the US have injected human stem …
What will happen when we manage to contact extraterrestrials? What consequences will it have for humanity? How can we prepare for that? Sputnik did these and other questions to the sociologist Michael Schetsche, author, along with Andreas Anton, of the publication 'An alien society'. Introduction to exosociology. ' The exosociology, …
A telescope in Canada detects repeating bursts of Radio waves (emanating beyond our galaxy) for the first time since 2007. Astronomers identified mysterious repeating energy bursts from deep space in the summer of 2018. Researchers analyzed the collected data and published their report on the 9th January …
The newly revealed Pentagon program is certainly not the first federally funded project to hunt for signs of advanced intelligence in the galaxy. A recently revealed, formerly secret U.S. government program that studied unexplained aerial phenomena—more colloquially referred to as UFOs—came as a surprise to many …
Some of the world's most renowned scientists are questioning whether the cosmos has an inner life similar to our own. For centuries, modern science has been shrinking the gap between humans and the rest of the universe, from Isaac Newton showing that one set of laws …
Are we looking for life in all the wrong ways, like SETI with smoke signals? A little over 80 years ago, humanity first began broadcasting radio and television signals with enough power that they should leave Earth’s atmosphere and progress deep into interstellar space. If someone living …
