Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve ever wanted to work for NASA, here’s your chance. Well, don’t expect a paycheck or any benefits, but the Agency is looking for volunteers to help process the …read more Continue reading NASA Help Wanted: Telescope Optional
When Frank Drake began his astronomy career in the late 1950s, this was an incredibly exciting time for the field. Humanity was beginning to unlock the secrets of the Universe …read more Continue reading Frank Drake’s Legacy, Or: Are We All Alone In The Universe?
Astronomy is undoubtedly one of the most exciting subjects in physics. Especially the search for exoplanets has been a thriving field in the last decades. While the first exoplanet was only discovered in 1992, there are now 4,144 confirmed exoplanets (as of 2nd April 2020). Naturally, we Sci-Fi lovers are …read more
Continue reading Searching for Alien Life with the Sun as Gravitational Telescope
Depending on how you look at it, the Internet turned 50 years old last week. On October 29, 1969, the first message was transmitted between two of the four nodes that made up ARPANET, the Internet’s predecessor network. ARPANET was created after a million dollars earmarked for ballistic missile defense …read more
A team heated a cloud of gas up to 2,000°F and blasted it with radiation to see what happens on giant planets that orbit very close to their stars. Continue reading NASA Scientists Created a Super-Hot Exoplanet Atmosphere on Earth
“The giant impact of a rocky planet was required to deliver the unique composition of life-essential elements to Earth.” Continue reading Life On Earth Was Seeded by Massive Collision That Formed the Moon
K2-288Bb is located 226 light years away. Continue reading Citizen Scientists Help Spot a Potentially Habitable Planet Nearly Twice the Size of Earth
The 50th anniversary of “Earthrise” is the perfect opportunity to think about sending Earth’s life to the stars. Continue reading The Plan to Seed Life on Alien Planets
The 50th anniversary of “Earthrise” is the perfect opportunity to think about sending Earth’s life to the stars. Continue reading The Plan to Seed Life on Alien Planets
“In only a few billion years from now, half of the planet may be gone.” Continue reading This Alien World Is Evaporating Faster Than Any Known Planet