
The message we're sending to nearby aliens is no threat to Earth
20 November 2017
Critics fear provoking hostile extraterrestrials by beaming messages to our closest exoplanets but there's no need to worry, says METI president Douglas Vakoch

20 November 2017
Critics fear provoking hostile extraterrestrials by beaming messages to our closest exoplanets but there's no need to worry, says METI president Douglas Vakoch

14 December 2016
Prepare for more exotic super-Earths as the hunt for exoplanets ramps up in 2017, says Stephen Baxter. They've already been imagined by science fiction

24 August 2016
Author Stephen Baxter wonders if the newly discovered Proxima b could resemble Per Ardua, the life-bearing world he imagined around the same nearby star

29 July 2015
Our planetary distinctions are crumbling as we continue to uncover incredible diversity in celestial objects, says Jeff Hecht