Tag: aliens

How and why we’re sampling asteroid Bennu – with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team

12.05.18.

Help us improve this podcast: take our short survey. How did our early solar system form? What are the origins of life? How likely are we to get hit by a dangerous asteroid? A daring NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx hopes to find the answers to these big questions at an asteroid named Bennu. This week,…
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Life on Mars? Watery new discovery raises tantalizing possibilities

07.26.18.

A huge announcement this week from the European Space Agency: they have found liquid water on Mars. Originally aired on the PBS NewsHour. Previous detections of water on the Red Planet were have all been frozen–though both imaging and on the ground sampling have also shown that liquid water was present on Mars’ surface in…
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Organic molecules on Mars, new glacial flow model, Miles swims with dolphins: this week in science

06.08.18.

Here’s a look back at this week in science, with stories you don’t want to miss. Miles O’Brien, dolphin whisperer As you are reading this, Miles is floating somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean… But don’t worry, we haven’t lost him! He’s embedding on a research vessel for about a week with a team of scientists…
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Artificial intelligence gains an intuition for hunting exoplanets

12.19.17.

For the first time, astrophysicists and computer scientists have partnered together to find planets outside our solar system with artificial intelligence. One of these planets is even the first eighth planet ever discovered in a system other than our own. Chris Shallue, senior software engineer at Google Brain, their artificial intelligence research hub, had just…
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Why Cassini must be destroyed

09.13.17.

It’s a matter of life or… well… life!
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Newly discovered planet best candidate alien life search

04.20.17.

This super-Earth is an instant top priority for a new generation of telescopes.
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