Who wouldn’t want to hang with this guy? JD Hancock

Intelligent life in the universe? Phone home, dammit!

With billions upon billions of stars out there and probably at least as many planets, it seems almost silly to think there isn’t life somewhere else. Where are all our ET friends (or overlords)?
How do we think about something we can’t see and don’t experience in our everyday lives, but seems to be pushing our universe apart ever faster? NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team

Explainer: the mysterious dark energy that speeds the universe’s rate of expansion

Einstein’s theory of gravity says dark energy must be out there, accelerating the expansion of our universe. But what is it and how can we try to figure out more about it?

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