Are we truly alone in the universe? A report on U.F.O.s by the Department of Defense has many asking that same question. The U.S. government's grudging acknowledgment of unidentified aerial phenomena after decades of public denial. The Pentagon now admits there's something out there.
How missing Antarctic microbes complicate the search for aliens | Science News
Even in the harshest environments, microbes always seem to get by. They thrive everywhere from boiling-hot seafloor hydrothermal vents to high on Mt. Everest. Clumps of microbial cells have even been found clinging to the hull of the International Space Station ( SN: 08/26/20 ).
Mars Wrigley Launches Limited Edition Zero-G SKITTLES® to Commemorate the Brand's First Trip To
NEWARK, N.J. , July 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Hot off the heels of SKITTLES® leaving Earth's atmosphere for the first time ever earlier this week, the brand is excited to announce it's creating a new, limited-edition Zero-G pack.
Designed for all your extraterrestrial and earthly travels, the new Zero-G pack features intergalactic, aluminum packaging, and is filled with the blue and purple candies you know and love from the brand, featuring Pineapple Passionfruit, Raspberry and Berry Punch .
Jeff Bezos says critics of the rich going to space 'are mostly right'
Jeff Bezos has heard the complaints about billionaires like himself funneling their money into private rocket companies instead of donating to causes on Earth, and he doesn't disagree.
In an interview with CNN ahead of his planned Tuesday morning space voyage in a rocket built by his company Blue Origin, Bezos was asked for his thoughts on critics who call the extraterrestrial flights "joyrides for the wealthy, and [who say] you should be spending your time and your money and
In Media Res — Space Business — Quartz
Thousands of Stars View Earth as a Transiting Exoplanet - Eos
The Milky Way is home to billions of stars and probably an even larger number of planets . To search for these planets, scientists watch for minute, but periodic, dips in a star's light, the telltale signature of a planet passing in front of its host star.
Lisa Kaltenegger and Jackie Faherty calculated the number of stars whose past, present, or future vantage points in space afford a look at Earth passing in front of the Sun.
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