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No cigar: Interstellar object is cookie-shaped planet shard MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail This 2018 illustration provided by William Hartmann and Michael Belton shows a depiction of the Oumuamua interstellar object as a pancake-shaped disk. A study published in March 2021 says the mystery object is likely a remnant of a Pluto-like world and shaped like a cookie. (William Hartmann and Michael Belton via AP)William Hartmann/AP CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Our solar system’s first known interstellar visitor is neither a comet nor asteroid as first suspe...

By Issam AhmedAgence France-PresseWASHINGTON — Discovering there’s intelligent life beyond our planet could be the most transformative event in human history — but what if scientists decided to collectively ignore evidence suggesting it already happened?That’s the premise of a new book by a top astronomer, who argues that the simplest and best explanation for the highly

Don't show me this message again✕ Professor Avi Loeb doesn’t care if people think he’s a maverick (The Washington Post/Getty) A vi Loeb doesn’t care if people think he’s a maverick. He explains it like this: one day, when he was a boy at school, he entered the classroom and saw the other children jumping on their desks and stopped to watch. When the teacher came in she said, look at Avi, he is so well behaved. “I was not particularly well behaved,” he told me recently. “I was just wondering whether it makes sense to jump around. I don’t do what everyone else is doing becaus...

The Harvard prof who insists we are not alone An oddly shaped object hurtling through space led Israeli astrophysicist Avi Loeb to write a book proposing the existence of outer space civilizations. We are not alone, according to Prof. Avi Loeb. Photo by Shutterstock Dinosaurs might still roam the Earth if a giant ancient asteroid had taken a slightly different course. If Prof. Avi Loeb had followed his expected trajectory, he’d have become a philosopher rather than Harvard University’s longtime chair of astronomy and founding director of its Black Hole Initiative. And if a shiny space obj...

BBC Science Focus Magazine In 2017, the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii spotted an interstellar object passing by Earth for the first time. Shortly after, Harvard’s Prof Avi Loeb was met with a backlash from the scientific community for suggesting it could be of alien origin. Now, several years on he has written a book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, outlining why we still can’t out rule the possibility, and why scientists should always keep an open mind. Advertisement How do we know that ‘Oumuamua wasn’t just a regular comet? Astronomer...