Avi Loeb

What do recent sightings of drones of unknown origin over New Jersey have in common with the study of dark comets?

The term “dark comets” was recently attributed in a series of papers to a new class of anomalous Solar system objects that pass near Earth…

It is an understatement to think that humans could have behaved more intelligently over history on this tiny rock we call Earth, especially…

My wife woke me up at 1:45AM on our visit to Tel Aviv as sirens alerted local residents to an approaching missile, launched by the…

Avi Loeb explains why humans could have behaved more intelligently throughout our history, and what that means for the future.

A small jump away from the gravitational pull of a rocky object reaches a height above the surface that scales inversely with the global…

Elon Musk’s vision is to save humanity from a single planet catastrophe by transporting humans from Earth to Mars with the reusable rocket…

The task of astrobiologists who seek evidence for extrasolar microbes is as simple as imitation. Primitive forms of life should exist under…

Our life is structured around the daily cycle of 24 hours. But there is no fundamental reason for this period. In fact, it was different in…

The sky is our window to the Universe. Looking up allows us to get informed about our cosmic roots. A lot has happened over the past 13.8…