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.

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 ...

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 ...

Avi Loeb made waves claiming interstellar object Oumuamua might be extraterrestrial. Now... Harvard's Avi Loeb more sure than ever we were visited by alien spacecraft ...

When the first sign of intelligent life visits us from space, it won’t be a giant saucer hovering over New York. More likely, it will be an alien civilization’s trash. Avi Loeb, chair of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...