Our Cosmic Neighborhood

Avi Loeb’s “Our Cosmic Neighborhood” features the renowned astronomer’s ongoing commentary on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and a range of other science issues of our day.

Scooping Interstellar Fragments from the Ocean Floor

Avi Loeb·April 20, 2022

On April 6, 2022, the U.S. Space Command tweeted a formal letter confirming a meteor as originating from outside the solar system.

Dark Matter: The Scientific Method and Understanding the Unseen

Avi Loeb·April 15, 2022

The popular cosmological paradigm supposes the existence of unseen matter known as “Cold Dark Matter”.

What is Dark Matter?

Avi Loeb·April 1, 2022

With questions like those surrounding dark matter, we should resist the temptation of explaining away anomalies based on past knowledge.

The Silence of Snow

Avi Loeb·March 28, 2022

Avi Loeb recaps several points of discussion from a recent meeting with journalist Leslie Kean, where they discussed the Galileo Project and the search for extraterrestrial life.

The Substitute for the Drake Equation in Extraterrestrial Space Archaeology

Avi Loeb·March 23, 2022

The likelihood of us finding extraterrestrial technological objects depends on our willingness to look for them, and not just on whether the extraterrestrials had sent them.

General Relativity Instead of Modified Gravity

Avi Loeb·March 18, 2022

The proper interpretation of recently acquired satellite data relies on Einstein's theory of general relativity, which still presents the best description of gravity as we know it.

Intelligent Communication: Understanding and Adaptation

There could be more than just distance that separates us from other intelligent life in the universe.

Avi Loeb·March 16, 2022

There could be more than merely distance that separates us from other intelligent life that exists in our universe.

Communicating with Extraterrestrials

In this inaugural installment of "Our Cosmic Neighborhood", Avi Loeb gives us perspectives on the challenges presented by any future attempts at communication with extraterrestrials.

Avi Loeb·March 10, 2022

In this inaugural installment of "Our Cosmic Neighborhood", Avi Loeb gives us perspectives on the challenges presented by any future attempts at communicating with extraterrestrials.

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Our Cosmic Neighborhood

Scooping Interstellar Fragments from the Ocean Floor

Dark Matter: The Scientific Method and Understanding the Unseen

What is Dark Matter?

The Silence of Snow

The Substitute for the Drake Equation in Extraterrestrial Space Archaeology

General Relativity Instead of Modified Gravity

Intelligent Communication: Understanding and Adaptation

There could be more than just distance that separates us from other intelligent life in the universe.

There could be more than just distance that separates us from other intelligent life in the universe.

Communicating with Extraterrestrials

In this inaugural installment of "Our Cosmic Neighborhood", Avi Loeb gives us perspectives on the challenges presented by any future attempts at communication with extraterrestrials.

In this inaugural installment of "Our Cosmic Neighborhood", Avi Loeb gives us perspectives on the challenges presented by any future attempts at communication with extraterrestrials.

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