The stars look static in the sky, but are they moving? How fast, and how do we know? What events…
Here's a big mystery in astronomy: fast radio bursts. Brief shrieks of radio waves coming from space. What are they?…
Everyone always wants to know if I believe in aliens. They really want to know if I believe in UFOs,…
Not all stars are alone. Some come in pairs and more. And when there are multiple stars in a system,…
We've been so busy wondering how we'll find aliens that we never stopped to consider what we'll do if we…
During a hearing last week before the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee SETI scientists Seth Shostak and Dan Werthimer…
Some day, human explorers will land a spacecraft on the surface of Europa, Enceladus, Titan, or some other icy world…
[/caption] Are we too hopeful in our hunt for extraterrestrial life? Regardless of exoplanet counts, super-Earths and Goldilocks zones, the…
[/caption] The Curiosity rover is currently on its way to Mars, scheduled to make a dramatic landing within Gale Crater…