January brought a wide range of thoughtful science conversations featuring researchers from the SETI Institute, spanning everything from hands-on planetary defense with citizen scientists to careful ...

The universe is full of spectacular sights, from aurora on Earth and Jupiter to the solar flares that cause them, to distant ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

Last July, Earth's radio telescopes targeted an interstellar comet traversing our solar system—the third confirmed interstellar visitor humanity has ever detected. For 7.25 hours across five nights, ...

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Unistellar's citizen scientists are using their smart telescopes to engage in planetary defense, research and observational astronomy.

Humans have been searching for signs of extraterrestrial life for more than a century, funding international efforts to search for signals from distant planets, launch probes, and build bigger and ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabriela Radulescu, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) As humans began to ...