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Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests in a new op-ed that 'Oumuamua, UAP sightings, and alien scientists could all be connected.

Harvard Professor Says Alien Spacecraft May Have Dropped Sensors

By Dan Robitzski

Professor and astrophysicist Adam Frank is not impressed by recent reports of UFOs.

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Astrophysicist Says Alien UFO Theories Are Stupid

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's recent discovery of what seems to be organic salts on Mars suggests the planet may have hosted life in the ancient past.

Why NASA Scientists Are So Excited by New Hints of Organic Compounds on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

A questionable paper claiming NASA photos revealed fungal life on Mars didn't survive scrutiny, but that doesn't mean Martian life is impossible.

The Mars Mushrooms Are Probably Fake, But Organisms Could Likely Survive on the Red Planet

By Dan Robitzski

A new study suggests that Mars could still have active volcanoes, and recent eruptions could have happened 50,000 instead of billions of years ago.

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Study: Mars Could Still Have Active Volcanoes

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are hard at work tracking down any alien civilizations that might be out there even though there's no guarantee they wouldn't attack us.

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SETI Research Director Warns of “Malevolent” Alien Civilizations

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's new Mars rover Perseverance scooped up its first rock and soil samples, officially beginning the hunt for extraterrestrial life.

Perseverance Is Now Officially Searching for Life on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists say they can hunt for alien civilizations by looking for industrial pollutants like nitrogen dioxide in exoplanets' atmospheres.

NASA Is Hunting Alien Civilizations by Looking for Their Pollution

By Dan Robitzski

Space agencies around the world are collaborating to make high-security facilities to study asteroids and Mars rocks for signs of life.

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Space Agencies Acknowledge That Asteroids Could Host Life

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists think that Jupiter's moon Europa might glow in the dark and that by measuring that glow they can detect what's hidden in its oceans.

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NASA Project Could Peer Inside Europa to Find Alien Life

By Dan Robitzski

So far, the hunt for extraterrestrial life hasn't succeeded. But thankfully, there are loads of star systems with a clear view of us instead.

Aliens in These Star Systems Could See Life on Earth, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A search for potential extraterrestrial life on Venus came back with nothing, suggesting variability on the planet or that the first disovery was an error.

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Researchers: Claim of Life Molecules on Venus May Have Been an Error

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Scientist: Aliens Facing the Apocalypse Would Be Easier to Find

By Dan Robitzski

A pair of scientists has some guesses for how any theoretical life hiding away under the acid clouds of Venus might have originated.

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Scientists Speculate About How Life on Venus Could Have Begun

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists Say Life Could Survive Inside Stars

By Dan Robitzski

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.

MIT Scientists Suggest Life Could Thrive in the Clouds of Venus

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have yet to find any evidence of life on another planet.But that hasn't stopped some rogue scientists from making outlandish claims.

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Extremely Dubious Scientist Believes There’s Mushrooms and Lichen on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Experts say that China is becoming the new international leader in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. They hope for newfound international cooperation.

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Experts: China Is Pulling Ahead in Race to Identify Extraterrestrials

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers say they may be able to search for signs of life on distant exoplanets that are orbiting collapsed, dead stars.

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Scientists Want to Hunt for Life on Long-Dead Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

NASA built an autonomous robot named BRUIE that may be able to hunt for signs of life on distant ocean worlds like Europa.

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Here’s the Robot NASA Wants to Use to Hunt Aliens on Ocean Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists identified a protein molecule in a meteorite. And they say they that it didn't come from Earth.

Scientists Discover Protein in a Meteorite

By Dan Robitzski

The director of the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory told the BBC that alien hunting for extra terrestrials should be taken more seriously.

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SETI Scientist: Nobody Takes Alien Hunting Seriously

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Africa Unveils Massive Alien-Hunting Antenna Network

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Survey Finds That Water Is Common Around Exoplanets

By Kristin Houser

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.

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

By Kristin Houser

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.

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Organism That Eats Meteorites Could Help Us Find Alien Life

By Kristin Houser

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 Is Testing an Alien-Hunting Submarine in Antarctica

By Kristin Houser

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

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

By Dan Robitzski

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.

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

By Dan Robitzski

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.

New Research: Aliens May Have Already Visited Earth

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that other exoplanets could feasibly serve as a better host for life than Earth does, if they fit certain criteria.

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Earth Might Not Be the Most Hospitable Planet out There

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found out that a potentially-habitable exoplanet can't support an atmosphere, ruling it and similar worlds out in the search for alien life.

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Astronomers Just Drastically Narrowed the Search for Alien Life

By Dan Robitzski

While the recent tardigrade spill on the Moon is bad news, it may not be the first time the resilient little creatures made their way to the lunar surface.

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Hipster Asteroids Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon Before It Was Cool

By Dan Robitzski

During an episode of Joe Rogan's podcast, Bernie Sanders promised he'd tell the public about alien life if he was elected president.

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Bernie Sanders Tells Joe Rogan He’d Declassify Aliens as President

By Dan Robitzski

Before we make first contact with any aliens out there, we should figure out whether we're willing to kill them to further our scientific knowledge.

Scientist: We Should Be Prepared to Kill Aliens

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists who work on extraterrestrial-seeking projects like SETI report a stigma within science that gets their work dismissed and funding killed.

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Scientists Are Terrified of SETI Research

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists recreated the extreme conditions of salty mud puddles on Mars in order to see whether microbial life could feasibly survive there.

Extraterrestrial Life Could Feasibly Live in Salty Puddles on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

A second look at data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals that the oceans of Saturns' moon, Eneceladus, could harbor ideal conditions for microbial life.

Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Has Nutrient-Rich Oceans

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of creating "dead zones," the radiation from black holes could facilitate the emergence of life on a nearby planet, according to a Harvard study.

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Harvard Scientists: Radiation From Black Holes May Create Life

By Kristin Houser

Jupiter's moon Europa, which many scientists suspect could support extraterrestrial life, has the same kind of salt in its oceans as Earth.

Jupiter’s Moon Europa Has Right Kind of Saltwater to Support Life

By Dan Robitzski

Professor Diana Pasulka sees the growing human belief in aliens as mirroring what happens when a religion begins to take shape.

Professor: Belief in Aliens Could Replace Traditional Religion

By Kristin Houser

Harvard professor Avi Loeb thinks finding signs of dead aliens could help humanity know what not to do if it wants to survive indefinitely.

Harvard Prof: Finding Dead Alien Civilizations Could Save Humans

By Kristin Houser

Using a highly sensitive algorithm, German astronomers have discovered 18 new exoplanets, including one that "could offer conditions friendly to life."

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Newly Found Exoplanet “Could Offer Conditions Friendly to Life”

By Kristin Houser

A scientist argues that the sheer volume of potentially habitable planets and moons coupled with the existence of water in space makes life inevitable.

Scientist: “Alien Life Now Seems Inevitable and Possibly Imminent”

By Dan Robitzski

ESA researchers have found evidence that Mars was once home to a planet-wide groundwater system — providing a new clue in the hunt for Martian life.

First Evidence of “Planet-Wide Groundwater System” on Mars Found

By Kristin Houser

A new tool called the TreePol spectropolarimeter could someday scan for extraterrestrial life without picking up any false positives.

New Gadget Detects Lifeforms From Long Distances

By Dan Robitzski

NASA administrator Thomas Zurbuchen argues that extraterrestrial life may be out there, given recent discoveries of off-world water and organic molecules.

NASA Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

Barnard's Star b, a nearby exoplanet, could have 'life zones' under its frigid surface, according to a team of astrophysicists.

One of the Closest Exoplanets to Earth Could Support Alien Life

By Kristin Houser

New calculations suggest that Jupiter's moons could have active tidal waves, much like those here on Earth, under their thick icy shells.

The Moons of Jupiter and Saturn Could Have Earth-Like Tidal Waves

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

Researchers: Mars Might Have Enough Oxygen For Underground Life

Researchers: Mars Might Have Enough Oxygen For Underground Life

By Jon Christian

An international team of scientists just announced their strategy for trying to figure out whether Mars can support life.

Scientists Need to Solve These Two Mysteries to Find Life on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, astronomers have discovered a coronal mass ejection (CME), a spewing of plasma and energy, from a star that's not the Earth's Sun.

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Scientists Observe a Star That Spews Plasma — And It’s Not Our Sun

By Kristin Houser

Through a series of experiments, UK researchers identify abiogenesis zones around stars, helping narrow down the list of planets that could form life.

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Scientists Shed New Light on What Life-Producing Planets Require

By Kristin Houser

There’s A Huge Subterranean Lake of Liquid Water on Mars

There’s A Huge Subterranean Lake of Liquid Water on Mars

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: One of Saturn’s Moons Has Everything Needed to Host Life

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The Digest: One of Saturn’s Moons Has Everything Needed to Host Life

By Kristin Houser

A Nearby Planet Thought to Host Life Was Just Blasted With Radiation

A Nearby Planet Thought to Host Life Was Just Blasted With Radiation

By Claudia Geib

How Will Humans React If We Discover Alien Life? This New Study Just Found Out (and Surprised Us)

How Will Humans React If We Discover Alien Life? This New Study Just Found Out (and Surprised Us)

The Atmospheres of Distant Planets Guide Scientists in the Search for Alien Life

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Rethinking Aliens: We Found Life in a Place Once Considered Sterile

By Lou Del Bello

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Scientists Find New Evidence That Life Could Have Begun In Space

By Patrick Caughill