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Cool new prog you must hear from Auri, L.O.E., Gaupa and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

Excellent new proggy sounds from Da Captain Trips, Rafiq Bhatia, Edenya and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

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Hey aliens, here’s our new album! How do you follow up a 50-year-old record that’s hurtling through space?

The Golden Record – launched in 1977 on the Voyager space probes – contained everything from Chuck Berry to Chinese dialects and the sound of humpback whales. But what would we put on it today?

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‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ − an astronomer explains how much evidence scientists need to claim discoveries like extraterrestrial life

The detection of life beyond Earth would be one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science. The Milky Way galaxy alone hosts hundreds of millions of potentially habitable planets. Astronomers are using powerful space telescopes to look for molecular indicators of biology in the atmospheres of the…

The Conversation

Did we actually find signs of alien life on K2-18b? 'We should expect some false alarms and this may be one'

Last week, scientists announced they found the "strongest evidence yet" of alien life beyond our solar system. However, the scientific community remains skeptical.

Space

How Katy Perry prepared for historic all-female spaceflight

The pop star will be joined by Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sanchez, journalist Gayle King and three other women on the all-female spaceflight

The Independent UK

Outer space inspired DayZ's Dean Hall to become a modder and game developer, and now he's making a Kerbal successor called Kitten Space Agency

Not even in an alpha state, Kitten Space Agency is inspiring a community of developers to join its mission.

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NASA and Sci-Fi Legend Gentry Lee Answers Our Biggest Question About Space

Inverse sat down with space engineer and sci-fi author Gentry Lee about his new documentary 'Starman,' and his thoughts on Denis Villeneuve’s 'Rendezvous With Rama' adaptation.

Inverse

Pale Blue Dot: The iconic Valentine's Day photo of Earth turns 35 today — and you're probably in it

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale Blue Dot" image is just as awe-inspiring today.

LiveScience

Leaving a permanent record of humanity on the moon – in 100 billion pixels

‘Sanctuary on the Moon’ is a lunar time capsule that provides a detailed guide to life on Earth for our future selves.

Al Jazeera

'Vega continues to be unusual:' Lack of planets around young star puzzles astronomers

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega has found a surprising lack of planets.

Space

Carl Sagan’s scientific legacy extends far beyond ‘Cosmos’

On Nov. 9, 2024, the world will mark Carl Sagan’s 90th birthday – but sadly without Sagan, who died in 1996 at the age of 62.

The Conversation

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong

Carl Sagan thought that "every question is a cry to understand the world." Yet the questions in this list would probably elicit an "I'm not mad, just disappointed" headshake even from Sagan. The post There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong…

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Fertile ground for MAGA’s exploitation

Donald Trump's disinformation agenda: The point of it all is exhaustion

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Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol: ‘I believe Mars still has some big surprises for us’

The director of the Carl Sagan Center on the possibility of life elsewhere in our solar system, what Venus can teach us about global heating, and what she thinks of Elon Musk

Inverse

A Radio Telescope Captured the Noise Humanity Leaks Into Space

Physicists hope to compare Earth’s radio fingerprint to their observations of other worlds.

The Guardian - AU

Storms, frogs and a kiss: how a group of scientists designed a message from humanity to aliens

When researching space objects and a far-flung message made for aliens, I was drawn to the question: what do we choose to memorialise – or forget?

Evening Standard

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Carl Sagan's Message To First Humans On Mars Revealed

Explore Carl Sagan's message to Mars, highlighting the importance of exploration and the enduring fascination with the Red Planet.

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Mac turns 40: Forty facts you never knew about Apple's computing powerhouse

Apple's Mac is four decades old. Here's what you didn't know.

Space

If life exists on Mars, don't count on sample-return missions to find it, scientists say

While ambitious plans to return Red Planet samples to Earth are in development, some scientists argue that we should instead find ways to analyze Mars samples on the planet itself.

The Independent UK

Book Review: 'The Warped Side of Our Universe' a novel look at secrets of cosmos

“The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey Through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves” explores many secrets of the cosmos

The Conversation

Carl Sagan detected life on Earth 30 years ago – here's how his experiment is helping us search for alien species today

It’s been 30 years since a group of scientists led by Carl Sagan found evidence for life on Earth using data from instruments on board the Nasa Galileo robotic spacecraft. Yes, you read that correctly. Among his many pearls of wisdom, Sagan was famous for saying that science is more…

The Guardian - UK

Gold vinyl for aliens may outlive humanity

Letter: This record of our existence is now gliding through space, way beyond our solar system – we may as well forget about it, writes Antony Barlow

Space

Are we really made of 'star stuff' and what does that even mean? (video)

Astronomer Carl Sagan once said that humanity is "made of star stuff." In a new video, astrophysicist Suzanna Randall explains what that actually means and where the elements in our body come from.

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