Data from NASA Galileo orbiter launched a generation ago yields new evidence of plumes, eruptions of water vapor, from Jupiter's moon Europa.
This week on Tested's 'Offworld' series, they look at the science fiction film Arrival and its depiction of communication with alien life. Ariel is…
NASA’s Planetary Protection Office was created to “promote a responsible exploration of the solar system by implementing and developing efforts that protect the science,…
No one really knows what aliens look like, but we all have similar ideas about them. It’s often a creature with a big head,…
This video by Kurzgesagt explains how finding alien life on a distant planet could potentially be dangerous. If we are not the only intelligent life…
The Alpha Centauri star system is ideal to search for habitable planets by various observing techniques due to its proximity and wide range of stellar…
With future space telescopes around the corner, the search for Earth-like planets is heating up, telescopes such as the Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission, James Webb…
Earth-sized alien worlds are out there. Now, astronomers are figuring out how to detect life on them
Science Magazine probes Earth-sized exoplanets with a new telescope concept now being studied by NASA. The Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission, or HabEx, is a mission…
Founded in 1999, the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures are presented on selected Wednesday evenings during the school year at Foothill College, in the heart of…
What does it mean to be a habitable planet? How can we find life if it’s truly “alien” and different from life on Earth? And…
On February 22, 2017, a team of NASA astronomers announced the discovery of seven Earth-like planets around the dwarf star Trappist-1, 40 light years from…
Join Lawrence Krauss, director of the Origins Project at ASU, as he welcomes Zachary Adam, recipient of the 2017 Origins Project Postdoctoral Lectureship Award. Adam…
This month the journal Astrobiology is publishing a special issue dedicated to the search for signs of life on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. Included is…
Matt O'Dowd, the host of PBS Space-Time, poses the question of whether galactic civilizations are truly possible and what limitations this technological breakthrough would present.…
This Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture features Dan Werthimer of the University of California, who talk about the possibility of other intelligent life in the universe…
Science Magazine explains the importance of finding hydrogen in the plumes of Enceladus. It is a sign of ongoing reactions on the floor of a…
The spacecraft Cassini is on its last legs, but that doesn't hinder it from making one last effort, providing us with some very interesting data…
Are we alone? Are there aliens out there? If so, how do we find them? Once we find them, how do we contact them? And…
Are aliens watching Earth TV? We'd like to credit the SKA Organization for the image used in the thumbnail.
The Drake Equation tells us the likelihood that there are other advanced technological civilizations waiting for us among the stars. In this episode of Space…