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- 5,000th confirmed exoplanet at last. After 30 years of exoplanet discoveries, the tally of confirmed alien worlds reached 5,000 this year. Scientists added the new milestone entry to the NASA Exoplanet Archive in March.
- New class of alien planets. In September, astronomers announced that a new type of exoplanet had been discovered. Made of about half-rock and half-water, either in liquid or ice form, the exoplanets were found orbiting the most common stars in the universe.
- Hidden Jupiter-size world. Astronomers and citizen scientists joined forces to discover a mysterious planet the size of Jupiter around an alien star. If their calculations of its orbit are correct, they should be able to see it again in February.
- The alien planet Hulk. A newfound blazing-hot 'super-Earth' is one of the most massive ever discovered, an exoplanet covered in magma with a "year" that only lasts half a day.
- Zooming metallic sphere. In May, during the first public hearing on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) since the 1960s, Pentagon officials unveiled previously classified footage of a metallic sphere zipping across the flight path of a military jet.
- LIGO's search for an alien mother ship. Searching for weird objects in our own skies is one thing, but scientists have also proposed a way to look for them farther from home.
- Official protocol for contacting aliens. Despite all this talk of looking for aliens, scientists are still stumped on what we should do if we were to find them.
- An alien signal... or not. For just one day in June, the moment of first contact with intelligent aliens looked like it had already arrived, after scientists at China's enormous Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope claimed it was "likely" they picked up trace signals from an extraterrestrial civilization.
Jun 17, 2021 · From new favorites like Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary to the forever-classic Alien, these alien-focused books will help feel your craving for all things interstellar. Whether you prefer to binge hard science fiction or humorous escapes, this list is sure to have an alien book for everyone.
Sep 3, 2022 · 1 Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel by Harry Josephine Giles. 2 Klara and the Sun: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. 3 A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine. 4 A River Called Time by Courttia Newland. 5 Wergen: The Alien Love War by Mercurio D Rivera. 6 Skyward Inn by Aliya Whiteley.
- The era of JWST begins. The top science story of 2022 is a tale more than two decades in the making. First considered in 1989 and formally recommended in 1996, NASA began construction of an infrared space telescope in 2004.
- EHT images Milky Way’s monster black hole. In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) released its groundbreaking first image of a black hole 55 million light-years away in the galaxy M87.
- NASA smacks an asteroid. At 7:14 p.m. EDT On Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, a 1,260-pound (570 kilograms) spacecraft traveling 14,000 mph (22,530 km/h) slammed directly into a small asteroid named Dimorphos, throwing out a massive cloud of debris.
- Landmark missions come to a close. While 2022 OPened many new doors, it was a time of closure as well. In April, NASA and the German Space Agency announced they would shut down the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), which carried a 2.5-meter telescope aboard a Boeing 747SP airplane.
Jan 11, 2023 · Find out how we’ve gone from viewing Mars as a pre-existing utopia populated by alien races to actually seeing the planet as a potential new home for earthlings.
Sep 29, 2023 · Europa, one of Jupiter's icy moons is the most likely place in our solar system to be home to alien life. Many astronomers are no longer asking whether there is life elsewhere in the Universe....
