outer space
Animals
World’s 1st Human-Whale Conversation May Help Us Talk to Aliens
New research suggests that talking to humpback whales could help us learn how to communicate with aliens. Scientists from the SETI Institute, University of California Davis, and the Alaska Whale Foundation have been conversing with a humpback whale named...
Space
MIT Builds Huge Space-Time Ripple Detector
Scientists at MIT just launched a new search for the waves of the Big Bang rippling through the universe. The plan is for a huge, sensitive, new-generation gravitational-wave detector. Over the following three years, the National Science Foundation will...
Science
Giant Asteroid to Whizz by Earth at Close Range
A giant asteroid is going to whizz past Earth at a speed of nearly 50,000 miles per hour on January 18.
The asteroid's path is the closest to Earth that any space rock will make in the next 200 years....
Australia
Astronomers Say Unique Radiowaves Coming From Unknown Space Object
Researchers from the University of Sydney in Australia recently detected mysterious radiowaves from space having a completely unknown origin, expressing complete puzzlement over the nature of the energy that is being emanated.
They are coming from a region in the...