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Scientists have found the most compelling evidence to date of alien life — and apparently, the discovery was positively shocking.

Scientist Says Sign of “Teeming” Alien Life Caused Him “Shock”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Using the Webb telescope, scientists have discovered the strongest signs of alien life to date — but NASA has nothing to say about it.

NASA Has No Comment on New Signs of Alien Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists suggest that the reason why we have yet to find aliens could be that they're hiding in a parallel universe.

Scientists Say Aliens May Be Hiding in the Multiverse

By Victor Tangermann

Former military officials have once again claimed that the United States possesses recovered alien technology.

Former Military Officials Tell Congress America Has Secretly Recovered Alien Technology

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers say they've developed a technique to detect smaller bandwidth radio signals that weren't intended to reach deep space.

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Intercept Alien Radio Signals

By Frank Landymore

In a new study, scientists take on the SETI community, determining that they may have a crisis of imagination.

Paper Proposes New Way to Calculate Number of Alien Civilizations

By Noor Al-Sibai

The CEO of the SETI Institute said the American government does not have compelling evidence of alien technology.

The Head of the SETI Institute Says He’s Seen Zero Evidence of Alien Technology

By Sharon Adarlo

After coming out as an alien-believer publicly last summer, Whoopi Goldberg has expounded on her belief in extraterrestrials.

Whoopi Goldberg Insists Aliens Are “Watching Us”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The seismic data Avi Loeb used to locate the crash site of an interstellar meteor and recover "alien" fragments from was interpreted wrongly.

There’s an Embarrassing Explanation for Those “Alien Fragments,” Researchers Claim

By Frank Landymore

Alien Civilizations May Be Trapped on Their Home Worlds

Alien Civilizations May Be Trapped on Their Home Worlds

By Victor Tangermann

With official inquiries into UFOs, the concept of alien contact has never seemed closer — but there would still be some major hurdles.

Alien Probes May Have Already Visited Earth, Scientist Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

Harvard professor Avi Loeb says he has new evidence that metal fragments recovered from the ocean floor could be alien technology.

Harvard Scientist Presents New Evidence That Samples Are Alien Spacecraft

By Frank Landymore

Experts quoted in a The Spectator piece about the James Webb discovering "alien life" say they've been taken out of context.

Experts Push Back Against Rumors of James Webb Life Detection

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard professor Avi Loeb is headed back to Papua New Guinea to find fragments of a meteor that he thinks was actually an alien probe.

Harvard Scientist Planning New Expedition to Hunt for Bigger Chunks of Possible Alien Spacecraft

By Sharon Adarlo

Physics professor Kenneth Ohm has an unusual reason for having his DNA delivered to the Moon's south pole during an upcoming Celestis mission.

Man Sending His DNA to the Moon So Aliens Can Clone Him and Put Him in a Zoo

By Victor Tangermann

Some astronomers suggest that aliens may have already spotted us, we just don't know it yet, a tantalizing theory.

Aliens May Already Know We Exist, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

People in an isolated area of Peru claim they were attacked by aliens but investigators think it's actually illegal miners using jetpacks.

Cops Say “Aliens” Attacking Amazonian Village Are Men With Jetpacks

By Sharon Adarlo

Harvard alien-hunter Avi Loeb posited that superhuman aliens could be building universes in labs and that his haters are just "jealous."

Harvard Professor Says Godlike Aliens May Be Creating Universes in Labs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Glass and metal clouds serve as a protective mirror for a bizarre, ultra-hot exoplanet, which sits dangerously close to its home star.

Scientists Intrigued by Reflective Exoplanet With Shiny Titanium Clouds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Enceladus, an icy, 300 miles-in-diameter Moon that orbits Saturn, contains all of the six major ingredients for life after all.

Scientists Extremely Intrigued to Find Ingredients for Life on Enceladus

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Harvard Prof Teams Up With Military Official to Study Possible Alien “Mothership”

Harvard Prof Teams Up With Military Official to Study Possible Alien “Mothership”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Crashing Moons Might Be Annihilating Aliens Somewhere, Researchers Argue

Crashing Moons Might Be Annihilating Aliens Somewhere, Researchers Argue

By Frank Landymore

According to a new study, AI tools might seriously improve humanity's chances of discovering aliens on Mars — and beyond.

Scientists Want to Use AI to Hunt for Aliens on Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If aliens were to be in touch tomorrow, humanity would be ill-prepared, scientists warn — something that needs to change as soon as possible.

Scientists Worried Humankind Will Descend Into Chaos If We Ever Discover an Alien Signal

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has proposed that we could use existing Earth-based observatories to hunt for highly intelligent alien life forms and their advanced warp drive technologies.

Scientists Propose Method for Detecting Alien Warp Drive Activity

By Victor Tangermann

Infamous Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has released a new study that claims there could be an absurd amount of alien spacecraft already in our backyard.

Research Claims There Might Be Up to 4 Quintillion Alien Spacecraft in Our Solar System

By Frank Landymore

Combing through over 400 previous SETI surveys of our stars,scientists find that our telescopes pick up way more useful information than once thought,

New Project Scanning Old Data for Signs of Alien Civilizations

By Frank Landymore

A Swiss scientist has made a bold prediction about the discovery of alien life — and his reasoning is honestly really sound.

Swiss Government Scientist Says We May Be on the Brink of Discovering Alien Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astrophysicist and Harvard professor Avi Loeb is convinced that a meteor that crashed into the ocean years ago may have been alien in origin.

Experts Puzzled by Harvard Scientist Looking for Alien Wreckage in Ocean

By Frank Landymore

A NASA-funded project aims to use the Sun as a gigantic lens to peer into the far reaches of the universe to look for extraterrestrial biosignatures.

Researchers Want to Use the Sun As a Giant Telescope to Look for Aliens

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists made a big splash, announcing they had received "suspicious signals." But they're likely the result of radio frequency interference.

Sorry, But New Signal Is Definitely Not Aliens, Says Scientist Working on Project

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the very first time, months after announcing plans to buy the social media network.

During Business Meeting, Elon Musk Suddenly Starts Talking About Aliens

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Chinese and US scientists have put their reputation on the line by claiming a narrowband signal could be a sign of extraterrestrial life.

Potential Alien Signal Coming From Direction of Earthlike Planet, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

In a strange new paper, one researcher calculates that there are four "malicious" alien civilizations in the Milky Way alone.

Study: There May Be as Many as Four Evil Civilizations in Our Galaxy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers are puzzled by a number of strange and unexplained lights that show up in photographic plates of the night sky that date back over 70 years.

Scientists Intrigued by Strange Lights in Old Space Photos

By Victor Tangermann

Not everybody is thrilled about the idea of giving away our location to extraterrestrial civilizations, who may be listening in.

Oxford Scientist Worried NASA Project Will Attract “Hostile” Aliens

By Victor Tangermann

People are fantasizing about getting messages from aliens, as explored in a delightful new Reddit thread on the Space subreddit.

The Scariest Messages We Could Detect From Aliens, According to the Internet

By Noor Al-Sibai

Avi Loeb wants to capture a high-res image of a UFO in two years with the Galileo Project, using telescopes on the Harvard observatory roof.

Harvard Astronomer Says He’s Building Device to Capture “High Resolution Image” of UFO

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of astronomers have used the Murchison Widefield Array, a massive network of over 4,000 antennas in the Australian desert, to look for aliens.

Scientists Fail to Spot Aliens After Scanning Skies for Seven Whole Hours

By Victor Tangermann

Imagine, if you will, that future humans manage to travel to other worlds and find...more humans.

Scientists Say There May Be “Humans” All Over the Universe

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA Says We Need a Plan for When We Discover Alien Life

NASA Says We Need a Plan for When We Discover Alien Life

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA boss Bill Nelson made some eyebrow-raising remarks about possible connections between military sightings of UFOs and the search for alien life.

Head of NASA Suggests That UFOs Could Be Alien Technology

By Jon Christian

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has put together a workgroup called "The Galileo Project" to investigate evidence of alien civilizations.

New Harvard Project Will Investigate Alien Technology

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk waded in to the world of UFO sightings, claiming his latest meme is the "strongest argument against aliens."

Elon Musk Has an Interesting Argument Against UFOs

By Victor Tangermann

Former US Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe made some intriguing claims about the federal government's tracking of UFOs.

Former US Director of National Intelligence Says He’s Seriously Puzzled by UFOs

By Jon Christian

Avi Loeb and the Great Unknown

Avi Loeb and the Great Unknown

By Victor Tangermann

Steve Jurczyk shares his vision for the future of NASA, including plans for the Artemis missions, working with SpaceX, and more.

We Interviewed the New Head of NASA About SpaceX, China, and Aliens

By Dan Robitzski

A Very Strange Radio Signal Is Coming From the Closest Star

By Jon Christian

A retired Israeli general turned whisteblower has claimed that aliens are not only real, but have made contact, and that the world isn't ready to know.

Former Israeli General: Aliens Exist, and Earth Is Not Ready to Deal With Them

By Foster Kamer

Cosmonaut Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, who's heading to the International Space Station next month on a Soyuz rocket, says he would be nice to any aliens he met.

Space-Bound Cosmonaut: If I Meet Aliens, I Will Be Nice to Them

By Jon Christian

Scientists Say There Could Be Life on Mercury

Scientists Say There Could Be Life on Mercury

By Victor Tangermann

Monica Grady, a professor at Liverpool Hope University, claims that there is "almost a racing certainty" there's alien life on Jupiter's moon Europa.

University Chancellor Predicts “Higher Forms of Life” on Europa

By Victor Tangermann

This scientist from Oregon State University believes the professor who claims to have evidence of insects on Mars was just an example of pareidolia.

University Deletes Press Release Claiming Evidence of Bugs on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

An MIT postdoctoral student has a strange new suggestion for finding extraterrestrial life: scan the skies for phosphine, a foul-smelling, toxic gas.

Weird New Theory: Aliens Could Be Using Toxic Gas as Defense

By Victor Tangermann

New Study: Alien Life is Probably Way Rarer Than We Thought

New Study: Alien Life is Probably Way Rarer Than We Thought

By Victor Tangermann

A new paper suggests that we could spot an alien civilization by looking for signs of starships powered by the radiation thrown off by small black hole.

New SETI Plan: Detect Alien Starships Powered by Black Holes

By Jon Christian

NASA and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are working on sending an underwater drone to the deepest points of the Earth's oceans.

NASA’s New Deep-Sea Submarine Could Eventually Look for Aliens

By Victor Tangermann

In a new interview with The Times, University of St. Andrews astronomer Martin Dominik cautioned against sending messages into the unknown of deep space.

Astronomer Warns Against SETI: “Maybe They Will Come and Eat Us.”

By Jon Christian

The chair of Harvard University's Astronomy Department defended his controversial hypothesis that an interstellar object could be an alien probe.

Harvard Astronomer Defends Hypothesis That Object Is Alien Probe

By Jon Christian

In a new interview, a Harvard astronomer opens up about the hunt for alien life — and what first alien contact would mean for human civilization.

Harvard Astronomer Predicts What First Alien Contact Will Be Like

By Jon Christian

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The 40-Year Old Mystery of the “Wow!” Signal Was Just Solved

A nuclear-powered tunneling bot could burrow through Europa's icy shell to probe its composition and, potentially, access the watery darkness under it.

NASA’s Nuclear-Powered Tunneling Bot Could Hunt for Life on Europa

By Jon Christian

Building telescopes and other things in space, rather than on Earth, would vastly improve our ability to watch and explore the cosmos.

The Search for Aliens May Depend on In-Space Assembly

By Dan Robitzski

The Arecibo Observatory has unveiled the details of its New Arecibo Message global challenge, a contest to craft a new message to aliens.

Here’s How You Can Help Scientists Craft a Message to Aliens

By Kristin Houser