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Members of the Society For Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) have recently published a paper in the Journal of Space Exploration about certain features on the far side of the moon that appear in the cra…
In 1960, the astrophysicist Francis Drake pointed a radio telescope situated in Green Bank, West Virginia, in the direction of two Sun-like stars 11 light years away. His faith: to pick up a signal t…
According to Dr Nathalie Cabrol, who is currently leading the quest for alien life at the SETI Institute in California, an advanced alien civilization may be trying contact Earth at this very moment.…
It’s a long shot, but scientists are about to listen very closely for radio signals from our solar system’s first known interstellar visitor Ever since its discovery in mid-October as it passed…
New data reveal that the interstellar asteroid that recently zipped through our solar system is rocky, cigar-shaped, and has a somewhat reddish hue. It’s the first confirmed object from another…
Our solar system has a visitor. It's cylindrical, dark and reddish, a quarter-mile long. The object won't be staying. This fall, astronomers announced that the thing came blazing into …
A huge object that flew past Earth might be an alien spacecraft, scientists have said. Scientists had originally thought that the cigar-shaped object was a very strange passing asteroid. But a numbe…
Artist’s illustration of the GJ 273 system, which consists of a red dwarf star and two known planets, one of which may be capable of supporting life. Credit: Danielle Futselaar/METI If there…
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute has spent decades researching and exploring the mysterious, and often unexplained, phenomena of our universe. The enduring hope being …
A group of alien searchers is gearing up to send out cosmic messages in 2018 in order to look for the existence of extraterrestrial life , according to a report in CNET. The Search for Extraterrestr…
Astronomers believe it’s possible that advanced beings lived in or visited our solar system eons ago — and perhaps left behind certain ‘technosignatures.’ We’re used to the idea of searching …
Breakthrough Listen, an international collaborative project to look for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, has employed its high-precision instruments to look at a one-of-a-kind astronomi…
Protocols for responding to the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence have been created, but they might not be followed. First came the suggestion that an “alien megastructure” had been ob…
Back in 1950, during a lunch break at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, several scientists were trading wisecracks about a recent spate of UFO reports when Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enric…
Talking the walk ... Don’t know about you, but I’m loving those mystery lights on Ceres as NASA’s surveillance probe, Dawn, bears down on the biggest chunk of real estate in the asteroid belt. …
