Chris Lintott

Dimethyl sulfide is in the news after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have detected relatively high levels of it in the atmosphere of an exoplanet called K2-18 b

New observations by the Webb Space Telescope have reignited the debate about possible life on K2-18b, a potentially habitable exoplanet 124 light-years away. The post Life on K2-18b? Exciting new results met with skepticism first appeared on EarthSky.

The universe has been surprising us ever since we first looked into the cosmic darkness. We should embrace serendipity in science, says Chris Lintott

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Scientists made space exploration history on 12 November 2014 when, for the first time, a space probe landed on a comet. The speeding target was Churyumov-Gerasimenko—a dirty cosmic snowball slightly bigger than Mount Fuji. The probe was the Philae lander—part of the European Space Agency's Rosetta program. "The launch occurred approximately 500 million kilometers from […]

Scientists hope studies into Boyajian's star could lead to enhanced techniques for identifying distant planetary civilisations

The U.S. space agency set the internet ablaze when it published what it called its "Black Hole Remix."

The search for alien life is ramping up. But what if, instead of searching for signs of biology, we looked for something more familiar: an extraterrestrial civilisation.