472 Results From "extraterrestrial life"

Astronomers may be able to spot alien technosignatures, including the heat given off by satellite constellations like the one launched by Starlink.
Science & Energy

Scientist: We Should Be Searching for the Alien Version of Elon Musk

A team of Cornell University researchers have spotted a fast radio signal source that pulses on an astonishingly regular 16-day cycle.
Science & Energy

Powerful Radio Signal From Distant Galaxy Seems to Have a Pattern

Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut, firmly believes that aliens exist and that they may even be on the Earth already.
Off-World

UK’s First Astronaut: Aliens Definitely Exist, May Be on Earth

A new study suggests that artificial intelligence might trick us into thinking we see alien technosignatures where none exist.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Might Make Us Mistakenly Think We’ve Found Aliens, Says Study

China's world record, "alien-hunting" telescope, FAST, became fully operational on Saturday, quadrupling the amount of the universe astronomers can examine.
Science & Energy

China Finally Boots Up Colossal Alien-Hunting Radio Telescope

Scientists found that a single-celled organism could live off of materials from meteorites, which could help in our hunt to find alien life in space.
Science & Energy

Organism That Eats Meteorites Could Help Us Find Alien Life

A "pristine" meteorite that landed in 2018 and was studied before it could be contaminated was chock-full of extraterrestrial organic compounds.
Science & Energy

Scientists: 2018 Michigan Meteorite Was Filled With Organic Compounds

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has sent back a sweet selfie, a stunningly crisp self-image of the six-wheeled rover's "head."
Mars

NASA’s Mars Rover Just Took a Selfie and It’s Actually Beautiful

After analyzing the atmospheres of 19 exoplanets, researchers determined that 14 contained water vapor — more than they'd anticipated.
Science & Energy

Survey Finds That Water Is Common Around Exoplanets

Ohio University pulled a press release detailing a professor’s “evidence” that Mars is home to bugs, but won’t say if it stands behind the research.
Mars

Ohio University Has Yet to Deny Professor’s ‘Bugs on Mars!’ Claim. So.

If signs of alien life or civilization ever crashed into the Moon, they're likely still up there waiting to be discovered.
Science & Energy

Harvard Prof: The Moon Could Have Caught Alien Organisms, Tech

While it's an extremely long shot, a SETI researcher says there's a chance that ancient aliens visited our solar system to spy on Earth.
Science & Energy

SETI Scientist: Aliens May Have Left a Spy Probe Orbiting the Sun

Instead of crafting a complex code to share mathematical and scientific knowledge with aliens, the best way to communicate might be using our lanuages.
Science & Energy

To Chat With Aliens, We Should Beam an Encyclopedia to Space

NASA is sending a rover to Antarctica to train for missions during which it'll hunt for alien life in the icy oceans of far-off moons
NASA

NASA Is Testing an Alien-Hunting Submarine in Antarctica

Arizona State University astrophysicists claim they have solved the mystery behind interstellar object 'Oumuamua once and for all.
Science & Energy

Scientists: ‘Oumuamua Was Likely a Chunk of a Pluto-Like Planet

In a new book, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb argues that interstellar space rock 'Oumuamua could be an alien probe sent to us by an advanced civilization.
Science & Energy

Harvard Astronomer Argues That Aliens Visited Us in 2017

Avi Loeb and the Great Unknown
Exobiology

Avi Loeb and the Great Unknown

Thousands of engineers have been designing and working on a gigantic intergovernmental radio telescope network called the Square Kilometer Array (SKA).
Science & Energy

Africa Unveils Massive Alien-Hunting Antenna Network

New research suggests that we haven't found aliens because they're waiting until their solar systems pass closer to ours before making the journey.
Space

New Research: Aliens May Have Already Visited Earth

A doctoral candidate has a unique idea for how to colonize Mars: send bacteria to digest the soil and churn out useable raw materials for future settlers.
Mars

Unusual PhD Thesis: Let’s Use Bacteria to Colonize Mars