20 November 2019
Insects on Mars, fungi on Venus. Evidence is presented for life on our neighbouring planets
... the possibility that fungi, in general, may be hyper-extremophiles, capable of colonising Mars, Venus, and the harshest of alien environments."
22 November 2019
NASA and Boeing celebrate roll out of Starliner despite dispute over costs
... only inhabitant onboard was a life-sized mannequin called "Ripley," named after Sigourney Weaver's character in the "Alien" films. Boeing aim to send a similar anthropometric test dummy on their test flight, but this one is called...
16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
.... The planet watcher will make these high-precision observations by measuring the minuscule brightness changes as the alien world passes in front of their host star; a technique known as the Transit method - a highly successful method that...
12 June 2020
New Horizon breaks record with first interstellar parallax experiment
... how they appear in different places than we see from Earth. “It’s fair to say that New Horizons is looking at an alien sky, unlike what we see from Earth,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest...
07 September 2020
A new study helps narrow the search for intelligent life
... 33,000 light years) than the original sample of nearby stars. The results, for those hoping to find alien life nearby are disappointing though – less than 0.04 percent of stellar systems have the potential of hosting advanced...
20 November 2020
The iconic Arecibo Observatory to be demolished due to safety concerns
... that live it on. Although meant as a demonstration of human technological achievement, rather than a real attempt to contact aliens, the observatory has since been used by SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) to help find technologically...
