On May 18, the SETI Institute will launch a project to collect messages from people around the world that they would want to send to extraterrestrial civilizations, although there are currently no plans to actually transmit the messages.
A faint gamma-ray burst captured last Thursday by NASA’s Swift satellite has smashed the record for the earliest, most distant known object in the universe.
The site has undergone an overhaul. For anyone browsing the site, the big change is the new theme. There are also changes under the hood: a better and cleaner way of accessing the article nodes should decrease the load on the web server.
