Avi LoebIs Intelligence the Same on Exoplanets?In their visionary 1959 paper, Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison suggested searching for interstellar radio communication given the…1d ago41d ago4
Avi LoebDeath by a Gamma-Ray Burst from a Milky-Way BOATIn a public event about black holes, an audience member expressed deep concerns and recurring nightmares about the possibility of death by…3d ago43d ago4
Avi LoebHarmony of the Heavens Brought Down to EarthMy office was packed to its full capacity during today’s meeting of my research group. Since the Galileo Project’s observatory images the…4d ago4d ago
Avi LoebHealing a Broken World by an Out-of-This-World EncounterA friend of mine complained that rabbits eat up the flowers in her garden. I explained that the rabbits probably hold the view that she is…6d ago116d ago11
Avi LoebWhat is the Highest Spacetime Curvature Near Us?In principle, we could unravel exotic physics by irritating spacetime and inducing curvature in it.Jul 196Jul 196
Avi LoebWe Are Going Back to Interstellar Meteor 1The publication of my TED talk about the Galileo Project earlier this week received 200,000 views within a day. From my vantage point as a…Jul 186Jul 186
Avi LoebInterstellar Broken ArrowsIn my recent TED talk, I noted that if we find an interstellar tennis ball in our back yard within the solar system, we would know that our…Jul 173Jul 173
Avi LoebWas LUCA the First Solar-System Astronaut, 4.2-Billion Years Ago?A new Nature paper concluded that the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) of life on Earth had existed between 4.09–4.33 billion years…Jul 147Jul 147
Avi LoebIs the End Near?The most uncertain parameter in the Drake equation, L, represents the lifespan of a technological civilization like ours. We do not have…Jul 1320Jul 1320
Avi LoebMake Science, Not War!The inspiring City of Mainz in Germany has been the birthplace of the Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press. In my keynote lecture at the…Jul 119Jul 119