`Oumuamua-Related Publications by Avi Loeb   (with clickable links in reverse chronological order)      
Scientific Papers
*"On the Possibility of an Artificial Origin for `Oumuamua", Astrobiology (October 19, 2021)
*Sheerin, T.F., & Loeb, A. ``Could 1I/2017 U1 'Oumuamua Be a Solar Sail Hybrid?'', JBIS (2020).
*Ginsburg, I., Lingam, M. & Loeb, A. "Galactic Panspermia", JCAP (2019).
*Forbes, J., & Loeb, A. ``Turning up the Heat on `Oumuamua'', Astrophysical Journal Letters (2019).
*Ginsburg, I., Lingam, M., & Loeb, A. ``Galactic Panspermia'', The Astrophysical Journal (2018).
Essays (all single-authored by Loeb)*"The Rocket Effect on Earth", Medium (November 17, 2023)
*"Keep Your Inspiration from the Stars!", Medium (November 12, 2023)
*"The Sun is Charged!", Medium (November 5, 2023)
*"Interstellar Affairs Are Not the Pentagon's Day Job", Medium (November 1, 2023)
*"Is God an Advanced Scientist", Medium (October 19, 2023)
*"Interstellar Meteors from Disruption of Rocky Planets by Dwarf Stars", Medium (October 11, 2023)
*"Can Our Civilization Rise-Up to Win the Cosmos Award?", Medium (October 6, 2023)
*"The Lavish Rainbow of Human Expressions", Medium (October 1, 2023)
*"Loneliness is Pointless", Medium (September 16, 2023)
*"The Lavish Rainbow of Human Expressions", Medium (October 1, 2023)
*"A Piece of Sky", Medium (September 9, 2023)
*"Seeking a Higher Intelligence", Medium (August 8, 2023)
*"The One Thing that Senators, Scientists and Artists Agree On!", Medium (July 17, 2023)
*"We Are All in the Same Boat", Medium (July 16, 2023)
*"A Harvest of 92 New Spherules in One Day", Medium (July 14, 2023)
*"A Billion Year Delivery by FedEx", Medium (July 11, 2023)
*"Corroded Iron and Volcanic Debris in IM1's Path", Medium (June 19, 2023)
*"The Multiple Groups of UAP Studies Within Government", Medium (June 5, 2023)
*"Terrestrial Relics from Non-Human Spacecraft", Medium (June 5, 2023)
*"An Interstellar Twist to Human History", Medium (June 4, 2023)
*"Breaking News: We Are Not the Smartest!", Medium (June 2, 2023)
*"The Horizon for Intergalactic Travel", Medium (May 19, 2023)
*"On the Benefits of Systematic Versus Anecdotal Evidence", Medium (May 12, 2023)
*"Chasing `Oumuamua", Medium (May 8, 2023)
*"Space Trash in Our Cosmic Neighborhood", Medium (May 7, 2023)
*"A Play About Life Beyond Earth", Medium (May 5, 2023)
*"Our Survival in the Milky Way", Medium (April 29, 2023)
*"The Density of What Matters in the Universe", Medium (April 26, 2023)
*"The State of the Universe", Medium (April 23, 2023)
*"Elon Musk is Wrong About Aliens!", Medium (April 21, 2023)
*"Fellows of the Galileo Project", Medium (April 21, 2023)
*"Afterthoughts on the Second UAP Senate Hearing", Medium (April 19, 2023)
*"The Shots Heard Round the World", Medium (April 18, 2023)
*"Tracking Extraterrestrial Packages with AI", Medium (April 16, 2023)
*"Reflections of a Farm Boy: "From Farm to Table" Science", Medium (April 14, 2023)
*"Extraterrestrials Offer Benefits, Not an Existential Risk", Medium (April 10, 2023)
*"Planetary Defense Warning Stations", Medium (April 8, 2023)
*"The Cosmos is Different from Our Backyard", Medium (April 4, 2023)
*"Overcoming Our Auriga Moments", Medium (April 2, 2023)
*"Dating Interstellar Objects with the Webb Space Telescope", Medium (March 30, 2023)
*"`Oumuamua Was Not a Hydrogen-Water Iceberg", Medium (March 23, 2023)
*"Is `Oumuamua a Hydrogen-Water Iceberg?", Medium (March 22, 2023)
*"Open-Minded AI", Medium (March 17, 2023)
*"Science is an Infinite Box of Chocolates", Medium (March 15, 2023)
*"Interstellar Interpretation of Plato's Cave Allegory", Medium (March 13, 2023)
*"A Gift from a Silver Star", Medium (March 9, 2023)
*"Do Technological Civilizations Self-Destruct or Self-Replicate", Medium (March 2, 2023)
*"Can A.I. Reproduce Human Creativity?", Medium (February 21, 2023)
*"Wishing to Be a Museum Item on an Exo-Planet", Medium (February 19, 2023)
*"Interstellar Romance", Medium (February 18, 2022)
*"The Existential Risk from Fast Bullets During Interstellar Travel", Medium (February 5, 2023)
*"Searching for Partners Around the Milky Way", Medium (February 2, 2023)
*"Interstellar Objects from Broken Dyson Spheres", Medium (January 29, 2023)
*"What Constitutes a Miracle?", Medium (January 24, 2023)
*"Imagine Interstellar", Medium (January 22, 2023)
*"Trading Disruptive Science for Imagined Realities", Medium (January 20, 2023)
*"The Next Copernican Revolution", Medium (December 20, 2022)
*"Our Interstellar Blessing: Live Long and Prosper!", Medium (December 19, 2022)
*"Allowing for the Unexpected in an Interstellar Date", Medium (December 16, 2022)
*"On an Artificial Origin for `Oumuamua", Astrobiology (December 14, 2022)
*"A Million CubeSats in Our Backyard", Medium (December 10, 2022)
*"Cast Your Craft on Interstellar Waters", Medium (December 5, 2022)
*"Confluence of Natural and Artificial Intelligences", Medium (November 28, 2022)
*"The Side Academy", Medium (November 26, 2022)
*"Are City Lights Still on Around White Dwarfs?", Medium (November 18, 2022)
*"What Makes Us Human?", Medium (November 14, 2022)
*"The Proper Way to Swipe Left and Right", Medium (November 12, 2022)
*"Let It Be ... An Intelligent Signal", Medium (November 7, 2022)
*"Nerds May Save Humanity", Medium (November 6, 2022)
*"What Happens in Vegas Does Not Stay in Vegas", Medium (November 3, 2022)
*"For the Love of Evidence", Medium (October 30, 2022)
*"From Simplicity to Complexity and Back", Medium (October 27, 2022)
*"A New Calculation on the Fly to the NASA UAP Study", Medium (October 24, 2022)
*"Hazards and Benefits of Interstellar Travel", Medium (October 20, 2022)
*"Gravitational Propulsion", Medium (October 20, 2022)
*"Near Earth Probes (NEPs)", Medium (October 18, 2022)
*"Seeds from an Interstellar Dandelion", Medium (October 17, 2022)
*"Lost Civilizations from Our Cosmic Past", Medium (October 13, 2022)
*"A Word of Torah About Extraterrestrials", Medium (October 11, 2022)
*"When Visiting the Jungle, We Are Likely to See Animals", Medium (October 9, 2022)
*"Rogue Planets", Medium (October 3, 2022)
*"Permanent Climate Change on Habitable Planets", Medium (October 2, 2022)
*"Do Astronomers Exist on Other Habotable Planets?", Medium (September 30, 2022)
*"An Extraterrestrial Resolution to the Absurdity of Life", Medium (September 28, 2022)
*"Understanding Ourselves Thanks to Sentient AI Systems", Medium (September 27, 2022)
*"The unfamiliar Nature of Interstellar Objects", Medium (September 22, 2022)
*"Low-Hanging Fruits of Extraterrestrial Civilizations", Medium (September 11, 2022)
*"A Meeting with `Oumuamua at the Venice Film Festival", Medium (September 3, 2022)
*"Advice to Young People", Medium (August 31, 2022)
*"You and It", Medium (August 29, 2022)
*"Exploring the Unknown", Medium (August 28, 2022)
*"Interstellar Dating", Medium (August 26, 2022)
*"The Genius in Our Interstellar Class", Medium (August 25, 2022)
*"The Last Year in the Life of a Star", Medium (August 24, 2022)
*"What is Real?", Medium (August 22, 2022)
*"Messages Carried by Ripples in Space and Time", Medium (August 20, 2022)
*"Gifts of Active Galactic Nuclei", Medium (August 18, 2022)
*"Wish Upon a Star", Medium (August 16, 2022)
*"What Came First: the Astro-Chicken or the Egg?", Medium (August 14, 2022)
*"Rising Above the Noise", Medium (August 11, 2022)
*"The Enigmatic Universe", Medium (August 10, 2022)
*"Fixing Our Worldview With Scientific Knowledge", Medium (August 4, 2022)
*"Interstellar Archaeology", Medium (August 4, 2022)
*"Our Cosmic Roots Suggest Humility", Medium (July 31, 2022)
*"What Doesn't Kill You, Makes You Stronger", Medium (July 28, 2022)
*"What's in a Name?", Medium (July 22, 2022)
*"Nature Could Be Simple", Medium (July 20, 2022)
*"First Year of the Galileo Project", Medium (July 20, 2022)
*"The Bright Side of the Moon", Medium (July 17, 2022)
*"Webb's Deepest Insight: Time is of the Essence", Medium (July 13, 2022)
*"Interstellar Artifacts", Medium (July 9, 2022)
*"The New Eyes and Brain of the Galileo Project", Medium (July 7, 2022)
*"The Sunrise Ritual", Medium (July 5, 2022)
*"Quantum Gravity Engineers", Medium (June 29, 2022)
*"Will Humanity Be Saved by Deus Ex Machina?", Medium (June 27, 2022)
*"Galileo Would Have Been Proud of Our Project", Medium (June 25, 2022)
*"Recalculating Academia", Medium (June 22, 2021)
*"Three Unsung Heroes from Our Cosmic Past", Medium (June 20, 2022)
*"Survival of the Optimist", Medium (June 15, 2022)
*"Could UAP Have Kinship to Our AI Systems", Medium (June 14, 2022)
*"Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery", Medium (June 11, 2022)
*"The Bliss of an Academic Family", Medium (June 9, 2022)
*"The Beginner's Mind of Machine Learning", Medium (June 4, 2022)
*"Technological Selection in the Race to Interstellar Space", Medium (June 2, 2022)
*"Quantum Tunneling of Dark Matter", Medium (May 31, 2022)
*"With Age Comes Wisdom", Medium (May 29, 2022)
*"The Trading Card of Human Civilization", Medium (May 25, 2022)
*"Galactic Kites", Medium (May 21, 2022)
*"Alleviating the Tyranny of the Rocket Equation", Medium (May 15, 2022)
*"Pushing the Frontiers of Science with Government Data", Medium (May 11, 2022)
*"Fishing In Extraterrestrial Seas", Medium (May 6, 2022)
*"Cherish Those Junior Moments", Medium (May 3, 2022)
*"How To Guide Our Life?", Medium (May 1, 2022)
*"The Memory Effect", Medium (April 25, 2022)
*"The New Horizons Meteor", Medium (April 22, 2022)
*"Scooping Interstellar Fragments from the Ocean Floor", Medium (April 13, 2022)
*"How Bright Can a Source in the Sky Be?", Medium (April 2, 2022)
*"The Scientific Method", Medium (March 31, 2022)
*"What is Missing in Academia?", Medium (March 28, 2022)
*"What is Dark Matter?", Medium (March 23, 2022)
*"The Silence of Snow", Medium (March 20, 2022)
*"The First Interstellar Meteor", Medium (March 10, 2022)
*"Intelligent Communication", Medium (March 8, 2022)
*"Communicating with Extraterrestrials", Medium (March 6, 2022)
*"Life Under the Ice", Medium (February 26, 2022)
*"What Do the Best Scientists in the Milky Way Know?", Medium (February 23, 2022)
*"Milky-Way Gifts to Life Expectancy", Medium (February 20, 2022)
*"Mind the Gap: Cosmic Stoicism", Medium (February 16, 2022)
*"Our Biggest Global Challenge", The Hill (February 14, 2022)
*"Stellar Engines", The Debrief (February 9, 2022)
*"City Lights on Other Planets", The DeBrief (February 2, 2022)
*"Two Choices in Space Exploration", The Hill (January 27, 2022)
*"Can We Find UAP from Above?", The Hill (January 24, 2022)
*"Life Lessons After Sixty Years", Medium (January 24, 2022)
*"Identifying the Unidentified", The DeBrief (January 21, 2022)
*"An Interview in the Metaverse", The Hill (January 18, 2022)
*"Can Intelligence be Digitized?", Medium (January 17, 2022)
*"Extraordinary Evidence Requires Extraordinary Funding", The DeBrief (January 11, 2022)
*"Are We Investing Trillions on What Matters?", The Hill (January 8, 2022)
*"Virtual Realities May Solve Fermi's Paradox About Extraterrestrials", The Hill (January 5, 2022)
*"Looking Through the Window", Medium (January 2, 2022)
*"Reinvigorating the UAP Legacy of Senator Harry Reid", The Hill (January 1, 2022)
*"We Need Scientific Analysis of Satellite Data on UAP", The Hill (December 27, 2021)
*"Fishing in Interstellar Space", The DeBrief (December 26, 2021)
*"Against the Wind", Medium (December 22, 2021)
*"The Tricky Reality of Reality", Medium (December 17, 2021)
*"Dating the Next `Oumuamua", The Bebrief (December 14, 2021)
*"Choosing Risks and Looking for ET", Medium (December 10, 2021)
*"Risk Assessment in Mainstream Science", The Hill (December 8, 2021)
*"The Fly on the Wall of My Porch", The Bebrief (November 30, 2021)
*"When Did Life Start in the Universe?", Scientific American (November 24, 2021)
*"Space Exploration and Spirituality", Medium (November 21, 2021)
*"Should We Trust Our Future AI Scientists?", Medium (November 16, 2021)
*"Extraterrestrials and Religion", Medium (November 14, 2021)
*"Attention to Anomalies", Inference (November 12, 2021)
*"Everything You Need to Know About the Galileo Project", Medium (November 7, 2021)
*"Our Universe Inspires Modesty, Curiosity and Calm", Medium (November 5, 2021)
*"Our Future in Space", Medium (November 2, 2021)
*"Let Many Flowers Bloom in Space", Medium (October 27, 2021)
*"Our Avatars in Space", Medium (October 25, 2021)
*"Following Our Childood Curiosity", Scientific American (October 18, 2021)
*"Protocol for Contact with Extraterrestrial Equipment", Scientific American (October 17, 2021)
*"Was Our Universe Created in a Laboratory?", Scientific American (October 15, 2021)
*"Searching for Anomalies", Medium (October 14, 2021)
*"A.I. Astronauts from Advanced Civilizations", Scientific American (October 11, 2021)
*"When Did Life Start In The Universe?", Scientific American (October 8, 2021)
*"Be Kind to Extraterrestrial Guests", Medium (October 5, 2021)
*"Microbes, Natural Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence", Scientific American (October 2, 2021)
*"Our Ego Trip In The Cosmos", Medium (September 29, 2021)
*"The Play Is Note About Us", Medium (September 27, 2021)
*"How To Search for Life As We Don't Know It"?", Scientific American (September 26, 2021)
*"Rising Above the Rubble", Medium (September 24, 2021)
*"Imagination Is Not a Consequence of Formal Education", Medium (September 21, 2021)
*"The Next Sunrise Will Look Different", Medium (September 20, 2021)
*"Will Autonomous AI Systems Replace Astronauts?", Medium (September 17, 2021)
*"The `Adults In The Room' Could Be Scientists", Medium (September 14, 2021)
*"A Sermon About Extraterrestrials", Medium (September 14, 2021)
*"Interstellar Monuments", Scientific American (August 28, 2021)
*"Some `Defenders' of Science Might Actually Be Hurting It", Scientific American (August 22, 2021)
*"When Will We Hear From Extraterrestrials?", Scientific American (August 15, 2021)
*"To Look or Not To Look: That is the Question!", Scientific American (August 4, 2021)
*"To Understand UAP We Need Megapixel Imagery", Scientific American (August 2, 2021)
*"How to Tell if Extraterrestrial Visitors are Friend or Foe?", Scientific American (July 12, 2021)
*"How Humanity Can Earn the Respect of Extraterrestrials", Scientific American (July 3, 2021)
*"Why Is Anomalous Evidence So Unpopular?", Scientific American (June 28, 2021)
*"Scientists Should Identify the Unidentified in the Pentagon Report", The Hill (June 25, 2021)
*"What We Can Learn from Studying UFOs", Scientific American (June 24, 2021)
*"Searching for City Lights On Other Planets", Scientific American (June 13, 2021)
*"Death By a Primordial Black Hole", Scientific American (June 6, 2021)
*"Defenses That Hurt Science", Scientific American (June 4, 2021)
*"A Fresh Approach to SETI", Book Chapter (June 1, 2021)
*"Maybe Dark Matter Is More Thank One Thing", Scientific American (May 30, 2021)
*"What To Do When Extraterrestrials Show Up?", Boston Globe (May 28, 2021)
*"How to Avoid a Cosmic Catastrophe", Scientific American (May 23, 2021)
*"When Scientific Orthodoxy Resembles Religious Dogma", Scientific American (May 17, 2021)
*"Stars that Race Through Space at Nearly the Speed of Light", Scientific American (May 1, 2021)
*"What To Do When ETs Show Up?", The Hill (May 4, 2021)
*"Scientists Should Never Stop Being Students/", Scientific American (April 23, 2021)
*"How Much Time Does Humanity Have Left?", Scientific American (April 20, 2021)
*"What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?", Scientific American (April 15, 2021)
*"When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe?", Scientific American (April 4, 2021)
*"How To Photograph a Possible Alien Artifact", Scientific American (March 22, 2021)
*"Was the Interstellar Object `Oumuamua a Nitrogen Iceberg?", Scientific American (March 19, 2021)
*"To Qualify as `Scientific', Evidence Has to Be Reproducible", Scientific American (March 1, 2021)
*"The Shrapnel that Killed the Dinosaurs", Scientific American (February 16, 2021)
*"Scientific Knowledge is Always Good", Scientific American (February 16, 2021)
*"ET and Arecibo", Pioneer Works (January 27, 2021)
*"Experimental Tests of Theology", Scientific American (January 26, 2021)
*"Message from Our nearest Star?", Scientific American (January 12, 2020)
*"The Cosmic Dawn of Technology", Scientific American (December 28, 2020)
*"Let's Search for Alien Probes, not Just Alien Signals", Scientific American (December 22, 2020)
*"Endless Creation Out of Nothing", Scientific American (December 12, 2020)
*"Noah's Spaceship", Scientific American (November 30, 2020)
*"Our Conversation with the Sky", Pioneer Works (November 22, 2020)
*"Living Near A White Dwarf", Scientific American (October 30, 2020)
*"Searching for the Atoms of Life", Scientific American (October 20, 2020)
*"The Empty Half of the Glass May Also Be Full" (Novemebr 14, 2020)
*"Risk Taking Should Be Mainstream In Science" (October 8, 2020)
*"Life and Fate", Inference (September 30, 2020)
*"Nature's Splendor Exceeds Our Imagination", Scientific American (September 29, 2020)
*"Life Near a White Dwarf", Scientific American (September 29, 2020)
*"Social Distancing on a Cosmic Scale", Scientific American (September 23, 2020)
*"The Dangers of Intellectual Territorialism", Scientific American (August 31, 2020)
*"The Hawking Limit", Scientific American (September 14, 2020)
*"What if We Could Live for a Million Years?", Scientific American (August 16, 2020)
*"My Recent Encounters with Rocks", Personal Diary (August 12, 2020)
*"A Movie of the Evolving Universe is Potentially Scary", Scientific American (August 2, 2020)
*"Beware of Theories of Everything", Scientific American (May 20, 2020)
*"The End of Time Could Be Of Our Own Making", Inference (May 18, 2020)
*"Visionary Science Takes More than Just Technical Skills", Scientific American (May 25, 2020)
*"A Sobering Astronomical Reminder from COVID-19", Scientific American (April 18, 2020)
*"Why the Pursuit of Scientific Knowledge Will Never End", Scientific American (April 6, 2020)
*"Surfing a Supernova", Scientific American (February 3, 2020)
*"Darwinian Survival Favors Generalists", Scientific American (January 9, 2020)
*"The Simple Truth About Physics", Scientific American (January 1, 2020)
*"A Tale of Three Frontiers", Scientific American (December 18, 2019)
*"Can the Universe Provide Us with the Meaning of Life?", Scientific American (November 18, 2019)
*"Space Archaeology", Atmos magazine (November 8, 2019)
*"Science is Not About Getting More Likes", Scientific American (October 8, 2019)
*"Essential Advice for Fledgling Scientists", Scientific American (December 2, 2019)
*"Did Life from Earth Escape the Solar System Eons Ago?", Scientific American (November 4, 2019)
*"The Moon as a Fishing Net for Extraterrestrial Life", Scientific American (September 25, 2019)
*"The Only Thing That Remains Constant Is Change", Scientific American (September 6, 2019)
*"Science as a Way of Life", Scientific American (August 14, 2019)
*"What is the One Thing You Would Change About the World?", Harvard Gazette (July 1, 2019)
*"It Takes a Village to Declassify an Error Bar", Scientific American (July 3, 2019)
*"In Search of Green Dwarfs", Scientific American (June 3, 2019)
*"`Oumuamua's Cousin?", Scientific American (May 6, 2019)
*"When Lab Experiments Carry Theological Implications", Scientific American (April 22, 2019)
*"The Humanities of the Future", Scientific American (March 22, 2019)
*"Living Near A Supermassive Black Hole", Scientific American (March 11, 2019)
*"Are We Really the Smartest Kid on the Cosmic Block?", Scientific American (March 4, 2019)
*"Be Kind to Extraterrestrials", Scientific American (February 15, 2019)
*"Advanced Extraterrestrials as an Approximation to God", Scientific American (January 26, 2019)
*"Our Future in Space Will Echo Our Future on Earth", Scientific American (January 10, 2019)
*"How to Approach the Problem of `Oumuamua", Scientific American (December 19, 2018)
*"Seeking the Truth When the Consensus is Against You", Scientific American (November 9, 2018)
*"On `Oumuamua" (November 5, 2018)
*"Making the Church Taller", Scientific American (October 18, 2018)
*"Searching for Relics of Dead Civilizations", Scientific American (September 27, 2018)
*"The Power of Anomalies", Scientific American (August 28, 2018)
*"Sailing on Light", Forbes magazine (August 8, 2018)
*"Science is an Infinite-Sum Game", Scientific American (July 31, 2018)
*"Are Alien Civilizations Technologically Advanced?" Scientific American (January 8, 2018)