Avi Loeb

The Galileo Project has released the commissioning data from its first Observatory at Harvard University in a new scientific paper.

On April 2, 2024, the Office of Science and technology Policy (OSTP) at the White House issued a memo in which it acknowledged the…

Humans have a hard time adapting to a fast exponential growth over a timescale of years, especially in academia which is used to…

In September 2011, the OPERA experiment at CERN reported that neutrinos travel faster than light. Nearly two hundred papers tried to make…

Faster-than-light neutrinos would be able to escape from the spacetime prisons of black holes. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb explores the cosmic consequences.

In the current snapshot of the Solar system, Mars has an inner moon named Phobos, whose orbital radius shrinks by 2 meters per century as a…

New research reveals Earth likely had Saturn-like rings 466 million years ago. Now scientists say this could point to evidence of an ancient unexplained climate event.

The opportunity to encounter exotic phenomena makes life thrilling. In contrast, the boring routine is to meet the mundane. We crave for…

What would happen if the velocities of all particles in the Universe underwent what physicists call 'Big Crunch'? Avi Loeb explores in this Thanksgiving installment of 'Our Cosmic Neighborhood.'

At the end of a new podcast interview, the brilliant undergraduate student Oem Trivedi — with whom I had the privilege of coauthoring a…