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Mar 22, 2023

Alien mothership lurking in our solar system could be watching us with tiny probes, Pentagon official suggests

Could an alien mothership be hovering around the solar system, sending out tiny probes to explore planets? According to a Harvard scientist and a Pentagon official, it’s possible. In a draft paper, the pair said it is feasible an extraterrestrial spaceship could be in our galactic neighborhood, exploring the region...

Mar 23, 2023

Aliens could be hiding in 'terminator zones' on planets with eternal night

Imagine if one side of the Earth always faced the sun. Half of the planet would be stuck in perpetual daylight, the other shrouded in permanent night. But for aliens in other solar systems, our doomsday scenario may be their everyday — and life might get along just fine. In...

Apr 8, 2023

Are aliens real?

Are aliens real? It's a good question. There currently isn't any evidence for life on other planets, but the universe is a big place, and it seems unlikely that out of the trillions of planets presumed to exist in our 13.8 billion-year-old universe, only Earth has ever hosted life. (This...

May 4, 2023

'Leaking' cell phone towers could lead aliens straight to Earth, new study suggests

If intelligent aliens are searching for other advanced lifeforms in the galaxy, our cell phone towers could be the beacons that give Earthlings away. New research suggests that advanced aliens in nearby star systems could probably already detect radio signals from cell phone towers. And as these signals become more...

May 23, 2023

James Webb telescope discovers gargantuan geyser on Saturn's moon, blasting water hundreds of miles into space

Scientists caught Saturn's icy moon Enceladus spraying a huge plume of watery vapor far into space — and that plume likely contains many of the chemical ingredients for life. Scientists detailed the eruption — glimpsed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in November 2022 — at a conference at...

May 29, 2023

Earth may have debris from alien star systems trapped in its orbit, new research suggests

Astronomers have found that renegade objects from alien star systems could be captured by Earth's gravity and linger in orbit around our planet for potentially millions of years. However, most of these objects would likely be too small to detect with current telescopes, according to a new study published May...

May 31, 2023

NASA concludes first-ever public UFO briefing. What did we learn?

NASA held the first public meeting to discuss the findings of its UAP independent study team today (May 31). The group, formed in June 2022, aims to examine data related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), a new term that encompasses objects or incidents in the sky, underwater or in space...

Jun 1, 2023

Repeated signals from the center of the Milky Way could be aliens saying hello, new study claims

Could intelligent aliens be lurking at the heart of the Milky Way? A new search for extraterrestrial life aims to find out by listening for radio pulses from the center of our galaxy. Narrow-frequency pulses are naturally emitted by stars called pulsars, but they're also used deliberately by humans in...

Jun 14, 2023

Scientists discovered a crucial element for life gushing out of Saturn's icy ocean moon

Scientists have found another clue that the ocean beneath one of Saturn's moons may be capable of supporting life. An international team discovered signs of sodium phosphates, a salt sometimes used in deli meat here on Earth, in a plume of ice shot out from a subsurface ocean on Enceladus,...

Jun 21, 2023

Aliens might be using a nearby supernova to get our attention, new study suggests

Astronomers have their eyes on a new ultrabright explosion in space: a Type II supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as M101). A Type II supernova is the catastrophic end to a massive star's life, and this new one, called SN 2023ixf, is the nearest bang to Earth in...

Jul 10, 2023

'Anomalous' metal spheres unlikely to be alien technology, despite Harvard scientist's claim

For nearly a decade, hundreds of tiny magnetic spheres shed by an extraterrestrial visitor lay deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. Now, the minute pellets have been dredged up by a scientific expedition — and they're fueling a media frenzy that some scientists feel is unearned. In 2014, a fireball blazed...

Jul 21, 2023

First contact with aliens could easily end in genocide, scholars warn

We’re only halfway through 2023, and it feels already like the year of alien contact. In February, President Joe Biden gave orders to shoot down three unidentified aerial phenomena – NASA’s title for UFOs. Then, the alleged leaked footage from a Navy pilot of a UFO, and then news of...

Jul 26, 2023

US government is hiding evidence of 'non-human intelligence', UFO whistleblower tells Congress

UFOs came to Washington on Wednesday. UFOs — or unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), as they're now called — have been receiving increased scrutiny from the U.S. government in recent years due to high-profile testimony from credible witnesses. In order to shine light on what some deem to be the pressing...

Aug 31, 2023

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission almost bit the dust — then Queen guitarist Brian May stepped in

On Sept. 24, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will come hurtling back through Earth's atmosphere after a years-long journey to Bennu, a potentially hazardous asteroid with a 1 in 2700 chance of smashing cataclysmically into Earth, the highest odds of any identified space object. The goal of the mission? To see whether...

Sep 14, 2023

No aliens in NASA's debut UFO report — but big questions remain

NASA's UFO study team released its long-awaited first report today, and while its experts found no signs of extraterrestrial origins for reported sightings, the space agency is appointing a new chief to study the phenomenon. NASA commissioned the independent panel of experts in 2022 in order to inform NASA and...