Alien spaceships are in a league of their own, though. Earth does have a force field that could make a spacecraft landing ...

Are We Really the Smartest Kid on the Cosmic Block? It’s unlikely, and if we keep thinking otherwise, we might be missing some important clues about the existence of extraterrestrial life Discover ...

When Princeton astrophysics professor Edwin Turner and Harvard astronomy professor Abraham Loeb traveled to a conference in Abu Dhabi last year, they attended a guided tour of Dubai. Neither expected ...

Using a NASA catalog of documented meteor strikes on Earth’s atmosphere, two Harvard University researchers report the detection of the first interstellar meteor ever observed in our solar system. The ...

Astronomers suggest that artificial illumination creates a signature that could point to the existence of civilizations on other worlds — and they say we should get started on a survey of the edges of ...

Harvard Astronomy department chair Abraham Loeb was nominated to be a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on Monday. Formed in 2001, PCAST members advise the U.S.

Astronomers working 100 billion years from now face a tedious time. Only about 1,000 galaxies will be visible from the Milky Way, compared with the many billions currently on offer. And their images ...

“Basically, Jupiter acts as a kind of pinball machine,” said astrophysics undergraduate student Amir Siraj on the new theory hoping to help better understand the demise of the dinosaurs. Harvard ...

However, when Dr. Amir Siraj and Dr. Abraham Loeb of the Department of Astronomy of Harvard University were studying the object, they discovered another that preceded it. In 2014, a meteor streaked ...