If aliens exist, here’s what they most likely look like
Movies, TV shows, and video games have helped humanity paint a mental picture of what aliens might look like if we ever run into them, …
Movies, TV shows, and video games have helped humanity paint a mental picture of what aliens might look like if we ever run into them, …
When it comes to alien hunting, astronomers have already done a pretty good job of checking out the planets in our own cosmic backyard. Sure, …
For a far-off star, KIC 8462852 sure has been getting a lot of attention recently. Earlier this year the star — which has been nicknamed “Tabby’s …
When you read and write about space news, new NASA technologies, and alien conspiracies as much as I do, you learn to approach everything you …
Earlier this week UFO hunters got some incredible news in the form of a New York Times report detailing a $22 million government program that …
Do aliens exist, and have they visited Earth? That might sound like a question that conspiracy theorists mull over in obscure chatrooms and internet forums, …
A couple of months back, a really, really weird asteroid flew through our Solar System. It looked nothing like any object humanity had ever spotted …
Back in mid-November, scientists revealed that a peculiar object whizzed through our Solar System a month prior. It swooped in from such an extreme angle …
Humanity has still yet to find real, concrete, scientifically-supported evidence of extraterrestrial life. We’ve gotten pretty close, and discovered some chemical markers and other indications …
Science fiction has taught us to expect our first contact with alien life to be a momentous event, with radio signals from another civilization filling …
If you’ve been paying attention to the scientific search for extraterrestrial life you’ll already know that in recent months the frosty Saturn moon Enceladus is …
Humans, generally speaking, are incredibly interested in the potential existence of intelligent alien life. The idea that an alien civilization exists somewhere in the cosmos …
Mars is one of the most studied and scrutinized of all the planets in our Solar System, and space agencies have sent probes, orbiters, and …
You’ve been hearing a lot of news about exoplanets recently thanks to increasingly powerful skywatching hardware capable of detecting worlds at an incredible distance from …
You don’t have to have be a huge sci-fi buff to know that depictions of aliens in movies, video games, and books are almost always …
Amateur paranormal investigators routinely claim that they’ve spotted signs of ancient alien civilizations in material published by NASA — from “alien skulls” to structures that …
We know our galaxy is huge, and that there’s an untold number of other galaxies out there in the unimaginably large universe. We also know …
It’s probably safe to say that most people would be pretty interested in humanity making contact with intelligent alien life, but few of us actually …
From our perspective on the puny planet Earth, our Solar System is pretty darn huge. Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, with countless planetary systems? …
If you’ve been remaining hopeful that humanity will find evidence of extraterrestrial life within your lifetime, scientists at the Geneva Observatory have some extremely good …
Unexplained radio bursts have once again been detected by astronomers searching for evidence of alien life, and science is still no closer to coming up …
Humanity’s vigorous drive to find — or be found by — intelligent life outside of Earth could one day lead to our total annihilation, or …
NASA is willing to pay someone anywhere from $124,000 to $187,000 per year to defend other planets from Earth contaminants. But the job also requires …
When it comes to the search for life outside of our Solar System, there are a number of ways we could eventually discover it. Exploring …
By using Earth and our sun as a reference, scientists have spent decades honing in on the conditions required for a planet to support life. …
After an absurd viral money-grab took the internet — and, sadly, several news agencies — by storm over the past week, NASA has finally broken …
NASA is making great strides at learning and explaining the complexities of not just the planets in our celestial backyard, but also the makeup of …
When you consider the vastness of the universe — and the sheer number of other galaxies, planetary systems, and potentially habitable worlds it contains — …
You’re forgiven if the name KIC 8462852 doesn’t ring a bell. It’s a far-off object, thought to be a star, which was only just discovered …
Researchers from around the world are scratching their heads over a newly discovered radio burst detected on Earth, but with a completely unknown origin. A …