The former chair of the Harvard Astronomy Department recently returned from an expedition to the Pacific Ocean near Papua New Guinea that dragged a magnetic sled across the seafloor in an attempt to ...

In January 2014, a meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere in the Western Pacific, as evidenced by apparent vibrational signatures of the event in a seismic station in Papua New Guinea. Last year, ...

Harvard’s Avi Loeb reports that the Galileo Project just completed the early analysis of 57 spherules from the crash site of the first recognized interstellar meteor, IM1. How do they know the meteor ...

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb went to Papua New Guinea looking for the remnants of what he believes is a rare meteor—one that may have originated from outside our solar system before crashing into the ...

Well folks, it's still not aliens. It's common for speeding rocks from space to blow up in our atmosphere, events called "fireballs." In 2014, such a meteor exploded over the Pacific Ocean, somewhere ...

Sound waves thought to be from a 2014 meteor fireball north of Papua New Guinea were almost certainly vibrations from a truck rumbling along a nearby road, new Johns Hopkins University–led research ...

Small melted prices of the IM1 interstellar meteor have been found and measured. The tiny pieces have levels beryllium (Be), lanthanum (La) and uranium (U), dubbed “BeLaU” that are hundreds of times ...

Harvard professor Avi Loeb announced on Tuesday that he and a team of scientists conducted the first testing “in history” on remnants from a meteor that originated from outside the solar system. Loeb ...

The first interstellar object, `Oumuamua, was discovered in the Solar System by Pan-STARRS in 2017, allowing for a calibration of the abundance of interstellar objects of its size ∼100 m. One would ...

In brief: Public interest in UFOs, alien technology, and galaxies far, far away has never been higher than it is right now. And it's likely to ramp up even further following news that fragments of an ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...