"If the trend continues, the search for intelligence in the universe may finally escape the giggle-factor that for so long left it associated with bad sci-fi shows and generic UFO nuttiness," Frank writes.
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How Far Will Our Search For Aliens Go in 2021?
For at least the next couple of years, the rover will probe interesting environments that once had water rushing through. It will cache promising samples. Then sometime soon, hopefully by end of decade, NASA and a consortium of international partners will fetch the samples for an unprecedented trip back to Earth for detailed analysis.
Could Perseverance usher in a new era of alien hunting? It's hard to say right now, but we do know that Mars once had abundant flowing water and that the climactic conditions may have been great for microbes once upon a time. And if we can find even a single bacterium on Mars, it really bodes well for the solar system and beyond.
SETI: new signal excites alien hunters – here's how we could find out if it's real
Sir Bernard Lovell chair of Astrophysics and Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester
Michael Garrett is a member of the Breakthrough Listen Advisory Board. I'm the co-vice-chair of the Int. Academy of Astronautics SETI Permanent Commitee (SETI PC)
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The US$100m (£70m) Breakthrough Listen Initiative , founded by the billionaire, technology and science investor Yuri Milner and his wife Julia, has identified a mysterious radio signal that seems to come from the nearest star to the Sun – Proxima Centauri. This has generated a flood of excitement in the press and among scientists themselves.
Extraterrestrial hiking - Following the tracks of NASA's Curiosity rover | Christmas Specials |
H OW YOU came to be on this flat desert plain at this time does not matter. What matters is the landscape around you.
To the north there is what appears to be a rim around the world, brightened by morning-lit dust at its base, darker as it rises into the sky. In some places it is a disordered, stepping-stone staircase of hummocky hills; in some it has a steep, solid face. However they are reached, though, its heights are strangely continuous and peculiarly even in stature: a scarp, not a mountain range, one that curves as it stretches to the left and right, the east and west.
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Bringing cosmic dust to Earth - The Hindu
The Stardust's capsule return as seen from NASA's laboratory during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere in 2006. | Photo Credit: NASA
When returning from their famed moon mission in 1969, the astronauts of Apollo 11 returned with samples, including rocks, from our natural satellite. For decades after that, the only new material from space that geologists looked at came from meteorites reaching us. It was only in 2006 that a spacecraft sent material, including cometary and interstellar dust, back to Earth.
Harvard astronomer believes alien debris passed Earth in 2017
(CBS/WVLT) - A Harvard University professor released a new book, making the case that humans are likely not alone in the universe.
CBS4 reports that astronomer Avi Loeb's book "Extraterrestrial" looks at the 2017 flyby of a space object that he believes was alien.
"At first people thought, well it must be a rock, just like the asteroids or comets that we have seen before within the solar system," Loeb told CBSN Boston's Paula Ebben. "But as they got more data on it, it looks very weird."
'Queen's Gambit' Creator Scott Frank to Tackle 'The Sparrow' for FX |
The Disney-owned cable outlet is developing a limited series adaptation of Mary Doria Russell's novel The Sparrow . Frank will write all episodes of the project, and Johan Renck ( Chernobyl ) is attached to direct.
The mission, however, ends in disaster and Sandoz, the lone survivor, returns to Earth a broken man to face a Vatican inquiry into the now scandalous misadventure.
Frank is coming off The Queen's Gambit at Netflix. The show, based on a novel by Walter Tevis, became the streamer's most watched limited series ever by Netflix metrics and racked up several billion minutes of viewing time following its Oct. 23 release, according to Nielsen figures.
See the CIA’s trove of UFO-related intelligence documents | WKRN News 2
(NEXSTAR) – From reports of flying saucers to mysterious bomb blasts, the CIA has opened its catalogue of intelligence on reports of unidentified flying objects to the public.
In one report from June of 1996, two Lithuanian police officers working near the border reported seeing “a spherical object hanging and ‘pulsing,’ alternately shrinking and expanding” around 12:30 a.m. that morning. They also described “a strange sound like an electric or electronic crackle.”
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