Why physicist Avi Loeb thinks there's a "serious possibility" that 'Oumuamua was an alien spacecraft It's a "serious possibility that we should contemplate," Loeb says in his new book on the ...

Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb thinks the astronomical research community needs to get with the program and refocus its efforts on finding and identifying intelligent life in the cosmos.

Astronomer Avi Loeb believes that the interstellar object dubbed 'Oumuamua could actually be a probe sent by alien beings. Given the evidence that has so far been gathered, he says, it is a ...

Loeb responded with a book. In Extraterrestrial: The First Signs of Intelligent Life, Loeb suggests that 'Oumuamua is essentially alien scrap that had been traveling through the cosmos, quite ...

Avi Loeb, a theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard University, followed the news about Oumuamua for months. Then one morning in the fall of 2018, he had an idea. For Oumuamua to accelerate as it ...

On one side is a camp led by iconoclast Harvard physicist and noted alien-hunter Avi Loeb, who contends that we should at least consider the possibility that ‘Oumuamua is an alien spacecraft.On ...

In October 2017, astrophysicist Avi Loeb’s career took an unexpected turn. Spotted from a Hawaiian telescope, ‘Oumuamua, the name given to the large, pancake-shaped object found in our corner ...

Loeb’s fascination with the topic was driven by the discovery of Oumuamua — Hawaiian for “messenger sent from the distant past” — a football-field-sized, cigar-shaped object that zipped ...

Avi Loeb's team's findings may not say whether the metallic spheres are artificial or natural in origin, ... Loeb was essentially suggesting Oumuamua could have been an alien spaceship.

As for the strange acceleration and odd orbit, in October 2018, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his then-post-doc, Shmuel Bialy, submitted a preprint (since published) to the Astrophysical Journal ...

Harvard Astronomy professor Abraham “Avi” Loeb and his research team have found metallic spherules of “likely extrasolar composition,” according to an Aug. 29 preprint posted to the online ...

The first, a bizarrely shaped space rock now called ’Oumuamua, ... I thought we will not see anything,” says Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, ...