Tag: Avi Loeb

  • Science & Tech

    Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is

    You’ll never experience a black hole, but Avi Loeb can help you imagine one

    3 minutes
    Black hole.
  • Science & Tech

    Scientific discovery gets kind of government seal of approval

    Harvard student Amir Siraj ’22 and Professor Avi Loeb have found the earliest known meteor from another solar system to hit Earth, with the results confirmed by U.S. Space Force.

    4 minutes
    Amir Siraj ’22 .
  • Science & Tech

    Oh, if I could talk to the aliens

    Harvard astrophysicist and psychologist explore the possibility of life beyond our solar system and what to do should aliens arrive on Earth ready to engage.

    5 minutes
    Amy Adams in "Arrival."
  • Science & Tech

    The cataclysm that killed the dinosaurs

    New theory explains origin of comet that killed the dinosaurs

    5 minutes
    Dinosaur illustration.
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    Far-out findings from the cosmos

    CfA astronomers theorize that the solar system originally had two suns as they further research a sneezing star and ‘Oumuamua.

    7 minutes
    A binary companion the sun is shown..
  • Campus & Community

    One thing to change: Think more like children

    Abraham “Avi” Loeb, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, argues that academia shouldn’t just be about proving theories, but about exploration.

    4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Something weird this way comes

    A paper by Harvard researchers wonders whether the interstellar object known as “‘Oumuamua” is a visitor from an alien civilization.

    5 minutes
    Artist's rendering of 'Oumuamua.
  • Science & Tech

    New light on dark matter

    Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics researchers explore dark matter particles that may carry an electric charge, and explain why that matters.

    5 minutes
    Big Bang artwork
  • Science & Tech

    Just-so black holes

    New findings advance insight on formation of supermassive black holes in the early epochs of the universe.

    6 minutes
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    Interstellar seeds could create oases of life

    Within the next generation, it should become possible to detect signs of life on planets orbiting distant stars, say researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

    2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Far-out questions

    Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb talked about the search for intelligent life in a lecture at the Science Center.

    3 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Targeting alien polluters

    New research by theorists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) shows that we could spot the fingerprints of certain pollutants under ideal conditions. This would offer a new approach in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

    3 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Sizing up the Big Bang

    Four experts, including Nobel Prize winner Robert Wilson, came together for a CfA program titled “50 Years After the Discovery of the Big Bang.”

    4 minutes
  • Health

    Building on Einstein

    A team at Tel Aviv University in Israel and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has just discovered an exoplanet using a new method that relies on Einstein’s special theory of relativity.

    4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Tweaking the universe

    In a question-and-answer session, Harvard astronomy chair Avi Loeb explains the new data from the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite.

    7 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    A learner’s guide to the universe

    Harvard’s Avi Loeb is helping prepare the next generation of astronomers with a new textbook, “The First Galaxies in the Universe.”

    4 minutes
  • Health

    Dying stars source of life?

    Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have found that even dying stars could host planets with life — and if such life exists, they believe we might be able to detect it within the next decade.

    3 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Planets form in cosmic maelstrom

    At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a very inhospitable place to try to form a planet. New research by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that planets still can form in this cosmic maelstrom.

    3 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Planet starship

    Seven years ago, astronomers boggled when they found the first runaway star flying out of our galaxy at a speed of 1.5 million miles per hour. The discovery intrigued theorists, who wondered: If a star can get tossed outward at such an extreme velocity, could the same thing happen to planets? New research shows that…

    3 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Bright idea

    In a new paper, Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Edwin Turner of Princeton University suggest a new technique for finding aliens: Look for their city lights.

    3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Baby photos from the ultimate edge – a black hole

    Astronomers may have lucked into the ultimate in cosmic baby pictures: a voracious black hole fresh from its violent birth…

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