(Natural News) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has partnered with scientists working on the Breakthrough Listen project in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The team will use NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to identify “light-curve anomalies” and detect “technosignatures.” Breakthrough Listen is a $100 million SETI initiative considered as the most comprehensive search for alien […]

(Natural News) Anders Sandberg of the University of Oxford suggests looking for hypothetical star-sized structures called Dyson spheres to find aliens. He notes that if advanced alien civilizations do exist, they may have built one of these spheres and used it as a supercomputer, solar-capture technology or habitat. “I think you can find a bunch of very different […]

(Natural News) Researchers have identified five solar systems with multiple stars that may be hosting habitable planets. The researchers found that these so-called multiple star systems can support a stable “habitable zone,” the region around stars where liquid water can exist on planets. “Life is far most likely to evolve on planets located within their system’s habitable zone, just […]

(Natural News) Breakthrough Listen, the most extensive search yet for extraterrestrial intelligence, made the headlines recently after project researchers discovered a mysterious radio signal coming from Proxima Centauri, the nearest known star to the sun. Though the researchers are not done with their study, there has been speculation that the signal is a “technosignature” produced by an alien civilization. […]

(Natural News) Researchers from the Lulea University of Technology in Sweden have discovered 45 distant planets that may be capable of hosting life. In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A, the researchers said that these exoplanets may possess Earth-like atmospheres and may be able to maintain stable liquid water. With several active and […]

(Natural News) New research has revealed that a supermassive black hole located at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy exploded 3.5 million years ago. The blast, scientists said, was so big its flare managed to travel through both poles of the galaxy. This prompted lead author Joss Bland-Hawthorn of the University of Sydney to […]

(Natural News) A recent study published in the Astrophysical Journal has found large quantities of prebiotic molecules around massive protostars. Using an airborne telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), an international team of researchers detected chemical fingerprints suggesting the presence of these molecules, which are considered essential ingredients to life. “It turns out that these stars are like chemical […]

(Natural News) An international team of researchers has recently obtained the first direct image of the exoplanet Beta Pictoris c (B Pic c), confirming its existence since its indirect discovery in 2019. The “baby” exoplanet, which is estimated to be around 18 million years old, is the second planet known to orbit the star Beta Pictoris. […]

(Natural News) Earth was pummeled by three separate series of intense gamma-ray flares in the last 40 years. While scientists agree that magnetars, a type of neutron star, were behind the flares, the mechanism that unleashed those waves of energy remains unknown. A recent study offers a compelling theory to what that mechanism is. Researchers from the […]

(Natural News) A recent probe into three weird batches of gamma-ray bursts suggests that magnetars fissured due to magnetic field instabilities, releasing intense gamma rays that bombarded Earth’s atmosphere. These bursts occurred on three separate occasions in the last 40 years. They lasted only about one-tenth of a second and posed no threat to the planet. But their premium […]