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...
12 April 2021
60 years ago today, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space
... surrounding Gagarin's death included being drunk in the cockpit, assassinated by the Kremlin and being kidnapped by aliens. Recently though, partially declassified documents report of an incident involving an unauthorised Su-15 fighter jet that flew...
07 July 2021
Methane detected on Enceladus could be a sign of life, study shows
... to be extremely low, then such alternative abiotic mechanisms become much more likely, even if they are very alien compared to what we know here on Earth." One of those mechanisms could involve the chemical breakdown of primordial organic...
