With communication satellites, weather satellites, GPS, and much more, what happens in space is already important to our lives here […]
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The detection of gravitational waves from inspiraling black holes by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations was rightly celebrated as a
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What’s the fastest way to get a human being around a racetrack, if we ignore all the rules of racing?
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Recent years have seen a revolution in the study of exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the Sun (or
204 | John Asher Johnson on Hunting for Exoplanets Read More
If extraterrestrial life is out there — not just microbial slime, but big, complex, macroscopic organisms — what will they
188 | Arik Kershenbaum on What Aliens Will Be Like Read More
There is so much we don’t know about our universe. But our curiosity about the unknown shouldn’t blind us to
170 | Priya Natarajan on Galaxies, Black Holes, and Cosmic Anomalies Read More
The possible existence of technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations — not just alien microbes, but cultures as advanced (or much more)
131 | Avi Loeb on Taking Aliens Seriously Read More
Welcome to the third annual Mindscape Holiday Message! Just a chance for me to be a little more chatty and
Holiday Message 2020 | The Screwy Universe Read More
Astronomers rocked the cosmological world with the 1998 discovery that the universe is accelerating. Well-deserved Nobel Prizes were awarded to
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Human civilization is only a few thousand years old (depending on how we count). So if civilization will ultimately last
111 | Nick Bostrom on Anthropic Selection and Living in a Simulation Read More