The official account of The Galileo Project at Harvard University, led by Professor Avi Loeb. Links to Prof. Loeb's personal accounts in extended bio.
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On June 12, 2026, Steven Spielberg publicly released his film Disclosure Day while on the same day the U.S. Government disclosed the third…
Today, June 12, 2026, the third batch of UAP/UFO files was released here. This morning I pointed out on CBS News here that this release is…
Today, June 9, 2026, a press conference of lawmakers and UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) whistleblowers in Washington DC, called for…
Cosmic-rays are energetic charged particles that permeate the solar system, reaching Earth with energies between the rest-mass of the…
Today, I completed my term of over two decades as director of Harvard’s Institute for Theory and Computation. Below is the transcript from…
Below is a transcript of a new interview I had today with Fox Weather, one out of the 23 interviews I had over the past 24 hours, available…
by Konrad Szocik (1) and Abraham Loeb (2)
Life on Earth started with the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), dated to 4.2 billion years ago (as deduced here). Humanity’s first…
Recent filing with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on January 30, 2026 (here), imply that Elon Musk’s SpaceX has proposed…
During a typical lifespan, a human experiences about one century of history. However, we rarely wonder what happened to early humans who…
Today, April 6, 2026, the Artemis II spacecraft will carry four humans to a distance of 406,773 kilometers from Earth, the farthest humans…
Avi Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard ...
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe, composed of an electron and a proton. Deuterium includes a neutron in addition to…
In my previous essay, posted here, I suggested that to preserve the habitability of its home planet — an advanced technological…
The butterfly effect is a concept in the theory of chaos describing how tiny, initial changes in a complex system can result in massive…
One of the remarkable insights in the biblical story of genesis is that the observable Universe had a beginning in time, akin to the modern…
My Medium.com readership has grown to 140,000 followers. Each one of you represents something I deeply value: a mind that refuses to accept…
Through five peer-reviewed papers, published here, here, here, here and here, I have explored with my students and postdocs the possibility…
Every year, an explosion with an energy output comparable to the Hiroshima atomic bomb occurs in our atmosphere without advance warning (as…