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Cornell Scientists Find 1,000 Nearby Stars Where Aliens Could Be Watching Us

A new study identified 1,004 stars in the solar neighborhood with Earth in their direct line of sight.
By Sissi Cao

Aliens on ‘Super-Earths’ Might be Trapped on Those Worlds Forever

If E.T. is really trying to phone us, we may never know.
By Neel V. Patel

How Elon Musk’s Plan to Colonize Mars Helps Planet Earth

Earth Day values are not local to planet Earth.
By Neel V. Patel

Darren Aronofsky and Will Smith Teamed Up on a Strangely Emotional Nature Show

By Emily Bicks
The Falcon Heavy on launch day.

SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon Heavy Rocket on Maiden Voyage

By Thaddeus Cesari
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches.

SpaceX Helped US Lead the World in Successful Rocket Launches in 2017

By John Bonazzo
Concept art of the Juno spacecraft flying over Jupiter. Sounds from Juno are included in NASA's Halloween playlist.

NASA Releases Halloween ‘Spooky Space Sounds’ Playlist to Make Your Party Extra Scary

By John Bonazzo
Could aliens on exoplanets observe Earth?

Aliens on 9 Planets Could Be Watching Earth Using Human Technology

By John Bonazzo
DETROIT, MI - MAY 25: Wyclef Jean performs during the WeWork Celebrates The Detroit Creator Awards.

Wyclef Jean Partners With NASA, Uses Sounds From Juno Jupiter Mission in New Song

By John Bonazzo
Revellers watch the sunrise as they celebrate the pagan festival of Summer Solstice at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, southern England on June 21, 2015. The festival, which dates back thousands of years, celebrates the longest day of the year when the sun is at its maximum elevation. Modern druids and people gather at the landmark Stonehenge every year to see the sun rise on the first morning of summer.

The Scientific Discovery That Explains Stonehenge and the Summer Solstice

By Alanna Martinez
The sun.

The Sun Likely Has a Long-Lost Twin, Study Finds

By Michael Sainato
Between the Earth and the moon: An artist’s rendering of a refueling depot for deep-space exploration.

Mining the Moon for Rocket Fuel to Get Us to Mars

By Gary Li, Danielle DeLatte, Jerome Gilleron, Samuel Wald and Therese Jones
(L-R) Kevin Martin and Dylan Carlson are The Bug vs. Earth

‘The Studio Was My Passport to Leaving This Planet’: A Chat With The Bug

By Justin Joffe
Can a newly discovered fossil teach Earthlings about the Red Planet?

Scientists Just Discovered Earth’s Oldest Fossil—And It May Be Proof of Life on Mars

By John Bonazzo
The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in action.

Chile’s ‘Very Large Telescope’ Is Getting an Update to Become a Planet Hunter

By John Bonazzo
André Brahic(November 30, 1942– May 15, 2016) French astrophysicist who discovered the rings of Neptune in 1984.

In Memoriam: 8 Tech and Science Titans Who Died in 2016

By John Bonazzo
Concept art of SpaceX’s upcoming Falcon Heavy rocket

The Biggest Space Stories of 2016: The Good, the Bad and the Weird

By John Bonazzo
William S. Burroughs

A Playlist of Gratitude for a Difficult Thanksgiving

By John Kruth
Sumac.

The Month in Weird: August’s Best Avant-Garde Concerts

By Brad Cohan
-, SPACE: Picture released 04 October 2006 by the European Space Agency shows an artist's impression of a Jupiter-sized planet passing in front of its parent star. Such events are called transits. When the planet transits the star, the star?s apparent brightness drops by a few percent for a short period. Through this technique, astronomers can use the Hubble Space Telescope to search for planets across the galaxy by measuring periodic changes in a star?s luminosity. The first class of exoplanets found by this technique are the so-called ?hot Jupiters,? which are so close to their stars they complete an orbit within days, or even hours. A seam of stars at the centre of the Milky Way has shown astronomers that an entirely new class of planets closely orbiting distant suns is waiting to be explored, according to a paper published 04 October 2006. An international team of astronomers, using a camera aboard NASA's Hubble telescope, delved into a zone of the Milky Way known as the "galactic bulge", thus called because it is rich in stars and in the gas and dust which go to make up stars and planets. The finding opens up a new area of investigation for space scientists probing extrasolar planets - planets that orbit stars other than our own. AFP PHOTO NASA/ESA/K. SAHU (STScI) AND THE SWEEPS SCIENCE TEAM

First Water Clouds Discovered Outside of Solar System

By Michael Sainato
Paul McCartney.

In Defense of ‘Dad Rock’

By Ron Hart
A view through a canopy of trees in full fall color October 24, 2015 along Skyline drive in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.

National Parks Face Corporate Intrusions in Centennial Year

By Michael Sainato and Chelsea Skojec
Deep Blue takes on Garry Kasparov.

This Week in Tech History: First Space Station, Deep Blue Masters Chess

By John Bonazzo
(Photo: Nasa/Tumblr)

Michio Kaku Explains Gravitational Waves as ‘Baby Pictures of the Big Bang’

By Michael Sainato
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