The research organization is today celebrating 35 years of searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Founded in Mountain View, California … Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/332226/seti-institute-celebrates-35-years-of-hunting-et…
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Who knew? Plants ‘panic’ when it rains
Using a spray bottle to simulate rain, researchers found a “panic-like” response in plants. Complex chemical warning signals were passed from leaf to leaf and even communicated to other plants. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/plants-panic-when-wet-how-plants-communicate…
Luca to lead most challenging spacewalks since Hubble repairs
The date is set for ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano’s first spacewalk of his Beyond mission. Friday 15 November marks the start of a series of complex spacewalks to service the cosmic-particle-hunting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02). Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-11-luca-spacewalks-hubble.html…
TESS spacecraft is finding hundreds of exoplanets
… and it’s poised to find thousands more. But will we find another Earth? Source: https://earthsky.org/space/tess-spacecraft-finding-exoplanets…
TESS planet-hunter shows you the southern sky
Mosaic of the southern sky constructed from 208 images by NASA’s TESS spacecraft, taken during the mission’s first year of science operations. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/tess-panorama-southern-sky-video…
Breakthrough Listen and TESS team up for SETI
In an exciting new collaboration, Breakthrough Listen and NASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission TESS are teaming up in the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/breakthrough-listen-tess-collaboration-for-seti…
Night vision specialists: cats, bats, and owls
Three spooky Halloween animals see better at night than we do. Here’s how they do it. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/night-vision-cats-bats-and-owls…
Go young moon hunting in late October
To maximize your chances of catching the young moon on October 28, find an unobstructed horizon in the direction of sunset. Binoculars will come in handy! On October 29-31, the moon will be easier to see, from all parts of the globe. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/go-young-moon-hunting-in-late-october…
Rock Star’s Company Seeks UFOs, Finds Military Contract
A private company that researches UFOs has a new contract with the U.S. government. Source: https://www.livescience.com/ufo-hunting-contract-us-army.html
NASA Plans To Send Water-Hunting Robot To Moon Surface in 2022
NASA will send a golf cart-sized robot to the moon in 2022 to search for deposits of water below the surface, an effort to evaluate the vital resource ahead of a planned human return to the moon in 2024 to possibly use it for astronauts to drink and to make rocket fuel, the U.S. space agency said on Friday. From a…