Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# astrobiology
An astronomer who keeps making wild claims about alien technology in our solar system now claims there are parts of an alien spaceship in the Pacific Ocean.
# space
As the international race to explore Mars heats up, some writers are resurrecting an old hypothesis that life on Earth really started on the red planet.
# podcast
A recent crash landing on the Moon was an astrobiologist's worst-case scenario, raising the question of whether we're just doomed to contaminate every world we'll ever touch.
# podcast
Perhaps the most sinister explanation for why we haven't heard from aliens is that any civilization that reveals itself gets obliterated. But why? How? And how likely is that to happen?
# podcast
Get ready for a weekly dose of weird science and bleeding edge technology in an audio format, optimized for your commute and downtime.
# astrobiology
A new proposal posits that some of the fast radio bursts we've been routinely detecting may be coming from aliens, though not on purpose...
# astrobiology
The TRAPPIST-1 solar system is the most unique one we've seen so far and could offer amazing possibilities for life.
# astrobiology
If there was a thriving alien civilization on one of the best candidates for life in our stellar neighborhood, we missed them by well over a billion years...
# space
We typically think of Earth as an ideal world for habitability, but what we've discovered so far hints at us being an oddball.
# astrobiology
A new idea in the search for intelligent alien life argues that we should focus on aliens that could see us too.