In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...
A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...
As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...
"We all would have been thrilled to find technosignatures coming from 3I/ATLAS, but they're just not there." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...
In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...
“Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique has fossil sites that, as recently as 2016, had never been explored. It is here that the Paleo-Primate Project (PPP) studies fossil evidence and living primates ...
They’ve got their 3Is on the prize. The highly anticipated data 3I/ATLAS’ Earth tour last month is in. A targeted scan of 3I/ATLAS for signs of radio transmitting tech has come up empty — but Harvard ...
In the early 2000s, researchers uncovered primate bones that were approximately seven million years old in Chad’s Djurab Desert. Since then, the fossils, which belonged to the extinct species ...
The third known visitor from another star system, Comet 3I/ATLAS, has been racing through the Solar System with just enough weirdness to ignite a familiar debate: is it natural or could it be ...