Dr.Avi Loeb
Is the Mini-Moon Sar2901 a Lost Panel from Apollo 13?
Sar2901 is a temporary mini-moon, a small object that got gravitationally captured into a brief, unstable orbit around the Earth-Moon…
Tales from an AI-Disrupted Academia
The first day of classes at Harvard University on September 2, 2026 was shocking.
Was Dark Matter Detected?
A new paper, reports about one event that could potentially signal the first detection of WIMP interaction with ordinary matter.
Where Are the Aliens? Right Here, But We Are Slow to Recognize That!
Enrico Fermi’s question: where is everybody?” “They are here. It’s just that we haven’t realized that.”
Cosmic Slingshots to the Speed of Light
Over the past two decades, it became clear that some stars are ejected out of galaxies when pairs of stars…
Detectable Flashes from Light-Sail Transport Systems Between Habitable Exoplanets
A 2015 paper that I published here with my brilliant postdoc, James Guillochon, showed that leakage from a light sail propulsion apparatus…
Will NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Discover Interstellar Artifacts?
This morning, the $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to be launched by NASA to a Sun-Earth…
How to Build a Black Hole in Your Backyard
Black holes may offer enormous financial benefits to technological civilizations that are capable of producing them in their backyard.
Are We at the Top of the Cosmic Food Chain?
The diversity of wildlife is astonishing on a single habitable planet out of billions of habitable exoplanets in the Milky…