Is the Moon’s mantle wet?
While there are plenty of features dubbed “seas” on the Moon, none of them ever contained watery depths. For decades, scientists believed this was also true of our satellite’s interior — based on...
Networked eVscope would crowd-source amateur astronomy
The SETI Institute, in partnership with French startup Unistellar, wants to up the game for amateur astronomers by marketing a new small telescopethat acts as a crowd-sourcing instrument. The...
Enceladus’ sea floor has hydrothermal vents like ours
In 1977, a group of marine researchers discovered something they’d only before theorized: cracks in the ocean floor releasing heat, warming up (and often boiling) the ocean around it. They also...
Ending all life on Earth would take a pretty big object
It would take a dwarf planet-sized impactor to end all life on Earth. That’s according to research published in Scientific Reports last week. The study looked at what it would take not just to end...
SETI Institute-Unistellar Partnership Promises to Revolutionize Amateur Astronomy
July 18, 2017 Mountain View, CA, USA and Marseille, France — The SETI Institute and French startup Unistellar, announced a partnership today to commercialize a new telescope that promises to deliver...
“Alien megastructure” star may be a sign of a dying world
In 2015, reports of an unusual signal observed around a distant star spurred suggestions of the presence of an alien megastructure. But new research suggests that the bizarre discovery could instead...
The hunt is on for planets around some of our closest neighboring stars
The Pale Red Dot team is coasting off the success of their discovery last year of a planet in the Proxima Centauri system system by casting its net even wider as the Red Dots campaign. Whereas Pale...
Juno gets up close and personal with Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is one of its most iconic features. The giant storm, which has been raging in the atmosphere of the gas giant for at least hundreds of years, is larger than Earth and can be...
