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When I was a teenager in Ottawa I attended the local SF convention, Maplecon, a marvelous con that I still miss today, without fail every year. In 1984 I was a volunteer, and I was assigned as the liaison for our Guest of Honor, author and editor Ben...

Galaxy possibly teeming with 100 million life-sustaining planets — RT News. RT News June 01, 2014 Reuters / NASA Forget close encounters of a third kind. Imagine galactic encounters with millions of planets in the Milky Way galaxy, each of...

We’ve posted several times about all the extra-solar planets that are constantly being discovered — much to the distress of creationists. The last time was 715 Newly-Found Extra-Solar Planets. The total of confirmed planets spotted outside...

Everyone feels something when they’re in a really good starry place on a really good starry night and they look up and see this:   Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale...

NASA's Kepler mission has identified 2,740 planets orbiting other stars, but do any of them harbor intelligent life? Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have now used the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to look for intelligent...