10 December 2021
Extreme exoplanet changes the picture about massive stars as planet hosts
... large distance from the central pair of stars could be key to the planet’s survival. “The planet in b Centauri is an alien world in an environment that is completely different from what we experience here on Earth and in our Solar System,” explains...
24 September 2025
Cybersecurity, cosmic weather and Europa’s secrets
... system, while Luigi Vacca revisits the “galactic zoo” hypothesis to ask why humanity is still waiting to meet aliens. With its blend of hard science, policy insight, industry developments and visionary ideas, Issue 37 reinforces ROOM...
02 January 2018
Five awesome ideas for an adult's astronaut party
... cakes for special occasions if you don’t think you’re up to the task. Whether you want a rocket cake, an alien cake or a cake featuring all the planets, make sure it remains space-themed and, most of all, tasty...
26 February 2018
Why do we go into space?
...’s governments, militaries, and the laws of Earth? Each of these opens up further discussions. For example, how do we treat alien life, how do we treat each other, who has what rights and what are they? “The last...
29 March 2018
NASA Voyager 1&2 Owners’ Workshop Manual
... details of languages and music on the Record. As Casani writes in his foreword, “We knew that it was unlikely that [an] alien culture would chance upon either Voyager, but what the record said about us was more important...
29 March 2018
The Secret Genesis of Area 51
Thanks to Hollywood and TV series like the X-Files, ‘Area 51’ is synonymous with extraterrestrials, alien spaceships and men dressed in black. It was in fact, as the author reliably informs us, “a clandestine base of operations in the ...
