The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the …

- Seth Shostak

If you took all the sand from all the beaches, all the desserts, and all the oceans and called that the Universe, our whole solar system would be les…

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The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.

- Seth Shostak

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.

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Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is d…

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We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An …

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Five centuries from now - barring unimaginable catastrophe - the moon will be developed real estate. There's economic incentive to exploit the moon -…

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While about one-third of Americans believe in ghosts, you won't find many exhibits on these spooky beings down at the local science museum. Why? Well…

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The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven't even talked about the moons. And the numbe…

- Seth Shostak