Aliens most likely to inhabit ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet with all the ‘essential ingredients’ for life: astronomers

A new study suggests that if extraterrestrial life exists, it’s likely being lived on this exoplanet. Astronomers have ...
Penn Live

Pa. House committee met to talk about aliens from outer space. Here’s why

That’s what Rep. Nate Davidson, D-Cumberland and Dauphin said during a Tuesday Pa. House committee meeting on extraterrestrial life. The House Communications and Technology Committee met on the day of ...
AOL

15 Everyday Things That Came From the Space Race

The space race was marketed as a battle of geopolitics. Two superpowers, one moon, and a whole lot of national pride on the line. What was not marketed at the time was the sheer complexity of the ...
Wired

A Source of Mysterious Repeating Radio Signals From Space Has Been Identified

There is a mysterious phenomenon in which strong radio signals arrive periodically from space, yet their source remains completely unknown. Known as “long-period radio transients" (LPTs), these ...
Ars Technica

A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va.—Just 10 months ago, NASA asked three companies if they could do something nobody had done before. Could they build and launch a satellite to save a $500 million astronomy mission ...
Science Daily

SpaceX wants to build AI data centers in space. Will it work?

The race to build data centers in space is gaining momentum as AI drives unprecedented demand for computing power. Orbital facilities could tap into abundant solar energy and avoid many of the ...
Quanta Magazine

Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself.

At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown. For decades, NASA’s exploration of the solar system has been dominated by ...
The Conversation

Private space tourism is taking off – but laws on outer space are from another era

Private commercial operators are launching more rockets into space, carrying more people and pursuing more ambitious missions than ever before. Space tourism is part of this growth, with 140 paying ...
The Paris Review

The Vanishing Library: Timothy Ely’s Odd Little Book from Outer Space

Late in the week I got an email from one of my book dealers. He was at a fair in New York and thought he’d found a buyer for Timothy Ely’s Borderline, a unique artist’s book I’d placed with him on ...
Forbes

Inside This SpaceX Billionaire’s Mission To Build A Fleet Of Outer Space Taxis

Tom Mueller built the rocket engines that gave Elon Musk outer space. Now, the world’s greatest propulsion engineer is racing to create a cosmic courier service. Tom Mueller is driving his candy green ...
Los Angeles Times

Scientists probe cosmic visitor from deep space, come up empty in search for alien life

Last summer, a NASA-funded asteroid impact warning system detected a mysterious object speeding through the solar system. Scientists determined the object had entered the solar system from deep space, ...