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fromNature
3 days ago

The Moon belongs to all of us - not just countries that can afford to reach it

Humanity's past interactions with celestial bodies raise concerns about environmental stewardship and decision-making in space exploration.
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fromMail Online
5 days ago

Mystery surge of giant fireballs sparks extraterrestrial questions

A significant surge in fireball sightings has raised concerns about potential asteroid threats and UFO speculation, but they are confirmed as natural meteors.
History
fromInverse
1 week ago

A New Star Trek Game Just Revealed The Hidden Reason Starfleet Actually Began

Starfleet's origins are complex, with two distinct phases: pre-2161 and post-2161, as explored in a new documentary by Star Trek Online.
#nasa
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fromEntrepreneur
2 days ago

There's Something on the Moon That Earth Desperately Needs - And It Could Be Worth Trillions

NASA's Artemis II mission aims to establish lunar colonies for mining helium-3 and other resources, creating a new off-world economy.
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fromJezebel
2 days ago

Watch as 4 People Get to Launch the Hell Off This Planet

NASA's Artemis II mission aims to launch astronauts around the moon after 54 years since the last moon landing.
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fromMail Online
1 week ago

NASA scientist backs evidence of non-human intelligence in our skies

A former NASA scientist confirmed mysterious sky flashes linked to early nuclear tests, supporting findings from a previous study by Dr. Beatriz Villarroel.
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

Starfield Free Lanes And Terran Armada Update Revealed

Interplanetary exploration is what Free Lanes is all about. The idea is to add more reasons for players to travel through space instead of just fast-traveling. Bethesda is even adding a cruise control-like mode that will let players step away from the helm while their ship flies to a specific location. During these crises, you can be interrupted by random events.
Video games
#seti
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fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

Are We Blind to ET Communications Staring Us in the Face?

Searching for extraterrestrial signals may be hindered by cognitive biases and the overwhelming amount of data to analyze.
Science
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

Are We Blind to ET Communications Staring Us in the Face?

Searching for extraterrestrial signals may be hindered by cognitive biases and the overwhelming amount of data to analyze.
Video games
fromWGB
2 weeks ago

Starfield Announced For PlayStation In April, New DLC Also Revealed, Massive Free Update Details

Starfield launches on PlayStation 5 on April 7 with a new Terran Armada DLC and a substantial free update called Free Lanes for all players.
Film
fromArs Technica
3 weeks ago

Aliens announce their presence in latest Disclosure Day trailer

Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day employs deliberately vague marketing, revealing minimal plot details while hinting at an alien contact premise through cryptic Super Bowl trailer imagery.
#astronomy
fromJezebel
2 weeks ago
OMG science

Non-Earth News: Fossil Stars, an Asteroid Dripping With DNA, and 2 Dueling Planets

Astronomy news offers a refreshing escape from overwhelming current events, inspiring curiosity about the universe's vastness and history.
fromFuturism
1 month ago
Los Angeles

Astronomer Who Discovered Water on Distant Planet Murdered Outside Home

Carl Grillmair, a renowned Caltech astronomer who studied exoplanets and stellar streams, was shot and killed outside his home in Antelope Valley; a suspect was arrested and charged with his murder.
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fromJezebel
2 weeks ago

Non-Earth News: Fossil Stars, an Asteroid Dripping With DNA, and 2 Dueling Planets

Astronomy news offers a refreshing escape from overwhelming current events, inspiring curiosity about the universe's vastness and history.
#exoplanets
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fromMail Online
2 weeks ago

Scientists discover 45 Earth-like planets that could have ALIENS

Scientists identified 45 Earth-like exoplanets in habitable zones where life could potentially exist, with some located only tens of light-years away.
#blue-origin
fromFuturism
1 week ago
Science

Jeff Bezos' Space Company Unveils Plans for Orbital Anti-Asteroid Defense Weapons

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fromFuturism
1 week ago

Jeff Bezos' Space Company Unveils Plans for Orbital Anti-Asteroid Defense Weapons

Blue Origin is developing a NEO Hunter mission concept for planetary defense in collaboration with NASA to test asteroid-deflection techniques.
Science
fromEngadget
2 weeks ago

Blue Origin also wants to put AI data centers in space

Blue Origin plans to deploy 51,600 satellites for an orbital AI data center to enhance computing capacity for artificial intelligence.
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fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Scientists Spot Two Planets That Collided, Resulting in Carnage That Will Send Prickles Through Your Scalp

Astronomers detected a planetary collision around star Gaia20ehk through unusual brightness fluctuations and infrared signatures consistent with massive debris and extreme heat from impact.
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fromFuturism
1 month ago

This Is How Big a Telescope Aliens Would Need to See Dinosaurs on Earth

Observing dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away would require a telescope with a mirror 3.4 light-years across, weighing over 100 million times Earth's mass.
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fromArs Technica
2 weeks ago

Dogfighting in space won't look like the movies, but this company wants in on it

True Anomaly's Jackal satellite platform represents a new approach to space warfare, emphasizing precision, maneuverability, and deliberate planning rather than rapid combat scenarios.
Cryptocurrency
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

This Looks Like an Insider Bet on Aliens

Large bets on a prediction market suggest traders believe the Trump administration may announce alien life discovery by year-end, potentially indicating inside knowledge or speculation following Obama's alien comments.
Science
fromArs Technica
2 weeks ago

A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid

TransAstra plans to capture a house-sized asteroid and relocate it to a processing facility near Earth to harvest water and minerals for space-based manufacturing and propellant production.
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fromFuturism
4 weeks ago

Scientists Find Microbes Can Survive Traveling from Planet to Planet While Clinging to Asteroids

Extremophile bacteria can survive extreme pressures simulating asteroid impacts, supporting the possibility that microorganisms could travel between planets via panspermia.
fromMail Online
2 weeks ago

Humanity receives mysterious 'mega-laser' signal from unknown source

This system is truly extraordinary. We are seeing the radio equivalent of a laser halfway across the universe. This galaxy acts as a lens, the way a water droplet on a window pane would, because its mass curves the local space-time. So we have a radio laser passing through a cosmic telescope before being detected by the powerful MeerKAT radio telescope.
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US politics
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

Trump's order to release evidence for aliens obscures the scientific search for extraterrestrial life

President Trump ordered the Department of Defense and federal agencies to identify and release government files on UAPs, UFOs, and extraterrestrial-related materials.
#arc-raiders
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fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Something May Be Scrambling Alien Messages, NASA-Funded Research Finds

Space weather phenomena near alien planets could broaden and scatter extraterrestrial signals across multiple frequencies, making them undetectable by current SETI searches focused on narrow frequency bands.
#extraterrestrial-life
fromBig Think
1 month ago
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Can the Drake equation's final term predict humanity's demise?

Despite discovering thousands of exoplanets, no extraterrestrial life has been detected, and recent research suggests technologically advanced civilizations may survive less than 5,000 years.
fromMail Online
1 month ago
Science

Aliens DO exist - they just haven't visited Earth, NASA veteran claims

Alien life likely exists elsewhere in the universe, but no evidence supports that extraterrestrials have visited Earth.
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fromBig Think
1 month ago

Can the Drake equation's final term predict humanity's demise?

Despite discovering thousands of exoplanets, no extraterrestrial life has been detected, and recent research suggests technologically advanced civilizations may survive less than 5,000 years.
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
3 weeks ago

Have astronomers found a runaway monster black hole or just a very weird galaxy?

Astronomers discovered RBH-1, a potentially runaway supermassive black hole traveling at over three million kilometers per hour, though ambiguous data makes its true nature uncertain.
#science-fiction-and-spaceflight
Science
fromInverse
3 weeks ago

Project Realistic Spaceflight: How Pop Sci-Fi Is Entering An Incredible New Era

Science fiction has shifted toward greater scientific accuracy in recent years, with mainstream projects increasingly consulting real scientists and reflecting authentic spaceflight principles.
Science
fromInverse
3 weeks ago

Project Realistic Spaceflight: How Pop Sci-Fi Is Entering An Incredible New Era

Science fiction has shifted toward greater scientific accuracy in recent years, with mainstream projects increasingly consulting real scientists and reflecting authentic spaceflight principles.
fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

SETI admits its search for ET may be too narrowly focussed

If a signal gets broadened by its own star's environment, it can slip below our detection thresholds, even if it's there, potentially helping explain some of the radio silence we've seen in technosignature searches. This statement from Dr. Vishal Gajjar highlights how stellar environmental factors may cause detectable signals to become invisible to current SETI instruments.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

39 Years Later, Star Trek Just Gave An Old Alien Race A New Superpower

Starfleet Academy expands Betazoid abilities, labels the species empathic, reveals a Betazed psionic wall post-Burn, and shows varied Betazoid eye colors.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Do Aliens from Other Planets Also Believe in Gods?

My prediction is based on only two assumptions. First, our visitors from space can die; they are not immortal. Second, they care about each other. When one of their own dies, they mourn them, just as humans do. These assumptions, I think, will have led these aliens to invent gods and a belief in the afterlife. Belief in the afterlife, where we defeat death and are reunited with loved ones who have died, is the basis of all past and current religions.
Philosophy
#space-based-data-centers
World news
fromBreaking Defense
1 month ago

New UN forum seeks busting space traffic cooperation barriers - Breaking Defense

A UN expert group aims to improve international sharing of space situational awareness data to reduce collision risks and prevent misinterpretations that could trigger conflicts.
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Former Banking Insider Makes Strange Warning About Discovery of Alien Life

"The United States government appears to be partway through a multi-year process to declassify and disclose information on the existence of a technologically advanced non-human intelligence responsible for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs),"
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fromMail Online
3 weeks ago

NASA successfully changed an asteroid's orbit around the SUN

NASA's Dart mission successfully demonstrated that impacting a small asteroid moonlet can measurably alter the orbital path of its parent asteroid around the Sun, advancing planetary defense capabilities.
US politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

Bank of England must plan for a financial crisis triggered by aliens'

A former Bank of England analyst warns the UK must prepare financially for potential market turmoil if the US confirms the existence of non-human intelligence.
Television
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy deftly balances teen drama with intergalatic intrigue

Starfleet Academy's reception will significantly influence Star Trek's future as the franchise now hinges on a new 32nd-century academy series.
Science
fromMail Online
4 weeks ago

Aliens have tried to contact us for YEARS - 'looking for wrong thing'

Space weather distortion near alien star systems may be broadening radio signals, causing Earth-based detectors optimized for narrow frequencies to miss extraterrestrial transmissions.
Science
frombigthink.com
1 month ago

Only these six spacecraft will ever escape the Solar System

Only six of over 17,000 space payloads escape the Solar System's gravity, with Pioneer 10 being the first spacecraft to achieve Solar System escape velocity through a Jupiter gravitational assist in 1973.
Science
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Data Centers in Space Are Even More Cursed Than Previously Believed

SpaceX filed a patent for orbital data centers with up to one million satellites, but experts remain highly skeptical about financial feasibility and technological viability of space-based AI infrastructure.
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

How far are we from finding exomoons and exorings?

Giant planets in our solar system and around other stars likely possess numerous moons and rings, which astronomers can detect indirectly through transit methods and light curve analysis.
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Aliens could be CATAPULTED onto Earth via an asteroid, study claims

We found that life is more likely to survive an asteroid impact, so it's definitely still a real possibility that life on Earth could have come from Mars. Maybe we're Martians! The idea that life could have spread through the solar system or even the universe on rocks is known as the lithopanspermia hypothesis.
Science
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Could AI Data Centers Be Moved to Outer Space?

Now say you want to run some modest AI stuff. That's a bigger job, so let's scale up our cubical computer with edges twice as long as before. That would make the volume eight times larger (2 3), so we could have eight times as many processors, and we need eight times as much power input-2,400 watts. However, the surface area is only four times (2 2) larger, so the radiative power would be about 4,000 watts.
Science
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Who gets to inherit the stars? A space ethicist on what we're not talking about | TechCrunch

In October, at a tech conference in Italy, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos predicted that millions of people will be living in space " in the next couple of decades " and "mostly," he'd said, "because they want to," because robots will be more cost-effective than humans for doing the actual work in space.
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fromMail Online
1 month ago

NASA admits 1000s of 'city killer' asteroids still haven't been found

Tens of thousands of undetected near-Earth asteroids at least 140 metres wide remain, and Earth currently lacks a ready spacecraft capability to actively deflect them.
#astrobiology
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fromMail Online
1 month ago

Armageddon was RIGHT! We really could nuke asteroid heading for Earth

Nuclear detonations could deflect a metal-rich asteroid by nudging it, because some asteroid materials strengthen under intense impact rather than shatter.
Science
fromEmptywheel
2 months ago

Space Cowboys

Billionaire suborbital flights spark controversy over priorities but contribute to engineering advancement and US space capability while raising valid ethical and practical questions.
Science
fromWIRED
2 months ago

The Search for Alien Artifacts Is Coming Into Focus

Scientists develop rigorous techniques to search for potential alien artifacts in the solar system, including using pre-1957 archival sky images, while maintaining high evidence standards.
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Galactic Monsters Grew in Cocoons Like Giant Bugs, Scientists Say

How the most massive objects in the universe first formed is one of the biggest headscratchers in astrophysics. With more advanced telescopes, astronomers have found fully formed galaxies and colossal black holes earlier and earlier in the cosmos, just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. This shouldn't be enough time for these structures to reach their incredible size; to astronomers, it's like stumbling on a fully-grown oak tree that's only a year old.
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fromFuturism
2 months ago

Asteroid Behaving Strangely

A 2,300-foot Main Belt asteroid, 2025 MN 45, rotates every 1 minute 53 seconds, implying unusually high internal strength rather than a rubble pile.
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Scientists Say Heck, Just Nuke a Killer Asteroid Heading for Earth

Plenty of asteroids can survive their fiery plunge through the Earth's atmosphere. If they're big enough, they can prove incredibly destructive, like the 60-foot Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over the southern Ural region in Russia in 2013, releasing a blast equivalent to 30 times the energy of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. And in case an even larger space rock were to ever threaten humanity, we'd have to get creative to keep it from colliding with our planet.
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fromFuturism
2 months ago

Network of Home Computers Detected 100 Potential Alien Signals

SETI@home used distributed volunteer computing to analyze radio telescope data, producing large datasets and refining sensitivity despite no confirmed extraterrestrial detections.
Science
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Astronomers discover over 800 cosmic anomalies using a new AI tool

AnomalyMatch scanned nearly 100 million Hubble image cutouts in 2.5 days and identified 1,400 anomalous objects, over 800 previously undocumented.
Science
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Billionaires Found The Next Dumb Thing To Gamble The Economy On And It's The Moon - Kotaku

Major financial institutions and billionaires are accelerating investment into a nascent Moon economy focused on lunar exploration, infrastructure, and commercial and strategic opportunities.
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

Another Earth or a blip in the data? We may never find out

A single 2017 Kepler transit suggests a potential Earth-sized, habitable exoplanet orbiting HD 137010, but confirmation remains uncertain.
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