Scientists look for pattern recognition when exploring how the natural world or universe work. Something looks to be astray in KIC 8462852 one of 150,000 stars watched by the Kepler space telescope, which is giving off an odd flickering light. It may be a string of comets. Some think perhaps alien megastructures are at work. Or maybe it is a new natural pattern that we simply haven’t seen before.
Listen to Professor Kathy Campbell from University of Auckland in an interview with Radio Live NZ
"Today, Earth is a little less lonely," Kepler researcher Jon Jenkins said. According to NASA, the new planet discovered is...
Are we entering the Sixth Global Mass Extinction, caused by cumulative human impacts on the planet? New research (Ceballos...
An astrobiology conference has kicked off in Rotorua today giving students the opportunity to learn more about the possibility...
Haritina Mogosanu and Jesse Mulligan from Radio New Zealand are discussing the importance of the discovery of liquid water...
Students from Oxford Area School who participated in Synergies in Space Mission to Mars last year have the opportunity...
Learn about MethaneSAT, New Zealand's first official space mission as a country. The New Zealand Astrobiology Network interviewed Dr Peter...
Where there is water, there is life.
Join Professor Kathy Campbell in discussing the latest NASA data received from MAVEN about the atmosphere on Mars.
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