472 Results From "extraterrestrial life"

Now, Scientific American reports that researchers have created a new message to beam out to any intelligent aliens who might be out there.
Science & Energy

NASA Scientist Creates New Message for Aliens, Including Human DNA

A team of physicists speculate that a bizarre form of extraterrestrial life might be able to survive and rapidly evolve inside stars.
Space

Scientists Say Life Could Survive Inside Stars

NASA astronomer Alan Stern tells Discover Magazine that the discovery of liquid oceans on other worlds is among the "most profound discoveries" in space.
Science & Energy

A NASA Scientist Heralds “One of the Most Profound Discoveries” of the Space Age

Researchers at Nanjing University in China say lunar soil may support long-term human life on the Moon because by providing resources like oxygen and fuel.
Moon

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Turn Moon Soil Into Spaceship Fuel and Oxygen

Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf suggests that it would be much easier to find intelligent extraterrestrial life while it's facing the apocalypse.
Science & Energy

Scientist: Aliens Facing the Apocalypse Would Be Easier to Find

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.
Exobiology

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

The SETI Institute has finally chimed in on the mysterious discovery of a signal emanating from the Sun's closest star neighbor Proxima Centauri.
Science & Energy

SETI Institute Admits That Proxima Centauri Signal Is Very Strange

More bad news for the alien-hunting Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico: a second cable has fallen, crushing the intricate reflector dish below.
Science & Energy

More Damage Reported at Alien-Hunting SETI Facility

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Exobiology

A Very Strange Radio Signal Is Coming From the Closest Star

After checking 10 million stars for signs of a technological extraterrestrial civilization, a team of SETI scientists came back with nothing.
Space

Scientists Search 10 Million Stars, See No Signs of Alien Civilization

A controversial new study zeroes in on a possible — and potentially habitable — star system candidate that may have been the origin of the "Wow! signal," one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy that has puzzled scientists ever since its detection in 1977.
Science & Energy

Weird Signal Appears to Have Come From Habitable Star System

Astronomers suggest checking the surface of the Moon for ancient rocks that could have been blasted away from Venus during asteroid strikes.
Science & Energy

The Moon Might Be Littered With Ancient Shrapnel From Venus

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative is now listening for radio transmissions from 200 times more star systems it was before.
Science & Energy

SETI Team Increases Number of Stars That Might Host Life by 200x

Scientists are beginning to sound the alarm on the very real possibility of alien contaminations NASA isn't doing enough to safeguard against ET infections.
Future Society

Our Planet Is Very Vulnerable to Alien Contamination, Experts Say

Ann Druyan and Sam Sagan warn of a "pervasive and growing feeling" that the human enterprise is in a death spiral. Here's where they find hope.
Future Society

The Human Family in Crisis

The Italian scientists who found an undergound lake beneath the south pole of Mars revisited their data — and uncovered three more.
Science & Energy

Scientists Just Found Three More Reservoirs of Liquid Water on Mars

Scientists have long suggested that microbes could theoretically live in the sulfurous clouds of Venus. An MIT team has more ideas on how that would work.
Biology

MIT Scientists Suggest Life Could Thrive in the Clouds of Venus

Astrophysicist Says Scientists Need to Stop Searching for Alien Civilizations
Physics

Astrophysicist Says Scientists Need to Stop Searching for Alien Civilizations

Scientists treated the Moon like a giant mirror to study the Earth's atmosphere, a trick they say could help search for inhabited worlds.
Science & Energy

Scientists Are Using The Moon as a Giant Mirror to Search For Aliens

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.
Exobiology

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