SETI experts update their protocols for ‘Disclosure Day’
An international committee of experts says it has updated its rules for evaluating and revealing the detection of extraterrestrial intelligence.

The revisions in the decades-old Declaration of Principles, created and maintained by the International Academy of Astronautics' SETI Commi
https://cosmiclog.com/2026/06/05/seti-experts-update-their-protocols-for-disclosure-day/
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Next-gen Starship passes its first flight test despite snags
SpaceX's next-generation Starship V3 rocket got off to a glorious start for its first test flight, and although not all of its engines fired fully according to plan, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the mission "scored a goal for humanity."

This was the 12th Starship launch, but the first one since
https://cosmiclog.com/2026/05/22/next-gen-starship-passes-its-first-flight-test-despite-snags/
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Crypto investor plans to ride Starship around Mars
Chinese-born cryptocurrency investor Chun Wang has become the latest deep-pocketed space enthusiast to set his sights on a trip around Mars. But first, he wants to take a ride around the moon on SpaceX's Starship. And SpaceX is willing to work with him.

https://cosmiclog.com/2026/05/21/crypto-investor-plans-to-ride-starship-around-mars/
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Pluto-like world’s thin atmosphere poses a mystery
Scientists are puzzling over another oddball on the edge of the solar system: This time, it's an icy object less than a quarter of Pluto's size with a thin atmosphere – a layer of gas that's not typically found around objects so small.

A Japanese team of researchers — including an amate
https://cosmiclog.com/2026/05/08/pluto-like-worlds-thin-atmosphere-poses-a-mystery/
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Pentagon releases UFO files from moon trips and more
The Department of Defense has released a fresh batch of images and transcripts relating to reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, formerly known as UFOs, including pictures and descriptions from NASA's Apollo missions to the moon.

Today's release on the War.gov website was the first in a series plan
https://cosmiclog.com/2026/05/08/pentagon-releases-ufo-files-from-moon-trips-and-more/
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NASA pivots to moon base and nuclear Mars mission
NASA's leaders today laid out an ambitious multibillion-dollar space exploration plan that calls for building a moon base over the next decade and launching a nuclear-powered probe to Mars by 2028.

The space agency is also pressing the p
https://cosmiclog.com/2026/03/24/nasa-pivots-to-moon-base-and-nuclear-mars-mission/
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CERN adds a new particle to subatomic menagerie
The Large Hadron Collider's subatomic discoveries didn't stop with the Higgs boson: This week, scientists at Europe's CERN research center announced that the collider's LHCb experiment has detected a doubly charmed particle that's like a proton, but four times as weighty.

The parti
https://cosmiclog.com/2026/03/17/cern-adds-a-new-particle-to-subatomic-menagerie/
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Scientists find evidence of faraway worlds colliding
Astronomers say unusual readings from a star system 11,000 light-years away suggest that two of the planets circling the star crashed into each other, creating a huge, light-obscuring cloud of rocks and dust.

The analysis, laid out this week in a paper published
https://cosmiclog.com/2026/03/12/scientists-find-evidence-of-faraway-worlds-colliding/
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