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It is my great pleasure to report that Laura Domine from Stanford University has accepted our offer of the first Keto-Galileo postdoctoral fellowship. Laura is scheduled to complete her PhD thesis in December 2022 and will start her appointment at Harvard...

Every contributor to the Galileo Project is bound by three ground rules, which we have firmly upheld since the launch of the project... The Galileo Project has drawn a remarkable base of expert volunteers, from astrophysicists and other scientific...

Renowned advocates for UAP transparency bring decades of relevant experience to the Galileo Project’s scientific research efforts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — October 30, 2021 — Today the Galileo Project lead Professor Avi Loeb...

"The Silence of Snow", by Avi Loeb, Head of the Galileo Project “I love the sound of rain”, noted the investigative journalist and author, Leslie Kean, as drops of water were tapping on the dome of the Great Refractor telescope at the Harvard College...

Humanity's greatest achievement might be building our successors. Read the full article at Scientific American.

Humility is the key to finding our place in the universe. Bullies need not apply. My recent book “ Extraterrestrial” suggests that perhaps the first interstellar object discovered near Earth in 2017, ` Oumuamua, is artificial in origin because it had six...

Finding other intelligent life may enable humans to mature and gain a more modest perspective. Time for a new Copernican revolution? We are born into this world like actors placed on a stage without a script and we tend to think that the play is about us...

Much of astrobiology is focused on looking for organisms with chemistry similar to ours—but there could well be other kinds

What should we study? When a new understanding of reality is supported by data, there is no need for it to be popular. Nature shapes our future, irrespective of any incorrect notions held by people. In a recent forum that I attended with executives, the...

Simple Is as Simple Does A formal education doesn’t teach a level of imagination that is often needed for solutions. Trivial insights could be surprisingly rare. Michael Faraday, one of the most influential scientists in history, had little formal...