SETI Institute

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17 October 2026 20:50

🌕 Could the Moon preserve evidence of ancient alien civilizations? SETI Institute Affiliate Scientist Lewis Pinault explains why lunar regolith could be a promising place to search for microscopic technosignatures. Watch #SETILive: youtube.com/live/dBAUleB... 🧪 🔭

SETI Institute

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16 October 2026 16:43

#PPOD: NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has turned its infrared eyes toward 37 nearby brown dwarfs, revealing a remarkable diversity of objects that bridge the gap between stars and giant planets. Brown dwarfs form much like stars but lack the mass needed to sustain hydrogen fusion in their cores. 🧪 🔭

Space.com

space.com

15 October 2026 16:46

Planetary genealogy: Milky Way worlds belong to 1 of 2 ‘families,’ scientists find www.space.com/astronomy/ex...

Stacy McGaugh

dudedarkmatter.bsky.social

15 October 2026 16:15

Story out in Quanta about the diffuse galaxies DF2, DF4, & DF9. It conveys the message that these objects are the nail in the coffin for MOND. Is it so? www.quantamagazine.org/triplet-of-g...

SETI Institute

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14 October 2026 16:12

#PPOD: More than a century after the first photographs of the Orion Nebula, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revealed something extraordinary in this familiar stellar nursery: young stars surrounded by gas and dust disks. 🧪 🔭