A Houston, Texas resident is on a mission to capture an extraterrestrial. Derrel Sims, dubbed the Alien Hunter, claims to be the world’s leading expert on alien abduction. He has investigated alleged extraterrestrial events for nearly four decades. And, according ...
Read More »Can alien life develop around hotter stars?
Scientists searching for life as we know it on alien worlds typically focus on planets around stars like our own G-type sun. And some scientists believe that life can also develop on planets orbiting smaller, cooler stars. But a recent ...
Read More »Nearly half of Estonians believe aliens have visited Earth
According to a recent poll, many Estonians believe ETs not only exist, but they have civilizations and have visited Earth.
Read More »Introducing the most potentially habitable alien world so far
On Thursday, April 17, NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, an exoplanet with the greatest likelihood of containing life. A team of researchers published findings related to the discovery of Kepler-186f in the journal Science. The team identified the planet ...
Read More »Ways to detect alien civilizations
Space discoveries have absolutely erupted in recent years thanks to incredible scientific technology like the Kepler space telescope, the Cassini spacecraft, and the Herschel Space Observatory, just to name a few. Scientists continue discovering new places in the far reaches ...
Read More »SETI Institute announces new president and CEO
The SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) selected a new organization head. A press release issued by the SETI Institute on Wednesday, April 9 announced that Dr. David Black has been named the organization’s new President and Chief Executive Officer. ...
Read More »Likelihood of alien life on Enceladus bolstered by confirmation of subsurface ocean
New evidence confirms what many scientists already suspected–a liquid water ocean exists beneath the icy surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. In 2005, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft discovered water-rich plumes erupting from Enceladus’s south pole, leading researchers to believe the moon contained ...
Read More »Did the Smithsonian discover ALIEN skulls in Antarctica?
An archaeologist and his team reportedly discovered three elongated skulls in Antarctica. American Live Wire, a self-described “entertaining news & information” website, published a story on April 2 claiming that Smithsonian archaeologist Damian Waters and his team uncovered three elongated ...
Read More »NASA plans search for alien life on Europa
On Tuesday, March 4, NASA released an overview of its 2015 budget request, which includes funding for the formulation for a mission to Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Astrobiologists are excited about the potential habitability of Europa. Planetary scientist and astrobiologist Kevin ...
Read More »Alien-themed ‘Are We Alone’ week returns to the Science Channel
Once again, the Science Channel is reprising its popular extraterrestrial-themed Are We Alone? week. As previous years have demonstrated, the Science Channel does an incredible job packing the first week of March with highly entertaining and provocative shows exploring UFOs ...
Read More »Professor believes new telescope will discover alien civilizations within 15 years
A university professor is excited about the prospects of detecting alien civilizations with a new space telescope. The European Space Agency’s Plato (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) space telescope is scheduled to launch in 2024. And, as the Coventry ...
Read More »NASA Astrobiologist believes evidence of alien life on Mars was destroyed
Astrobiologist Richard Hoover spent more than forty six years working at NASA. In that time, he established the Astrobiology Research Group at the NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, and became internationally known for his research on microfossils in meteorites. Hoover has ...
Read More »The likelihood of alien life on worlds circling Alpha Centauri B
Computer simulations suggest that there are likely twenty one planets in the Alpha Centauri B solar system, eleven of which fall into the habitable zone where the temperature on those planets should be just right for liquid water to exist. ...
Read More »NASA sued for failing to investigate alien life
The plaintiff in a new lawsuit accuses NASA of failing to properly investigate an object on the Martian surface that he believes is alive. In mid-January, NASA’s Opportunity rover photographed a mysterious object on Mars that had not been there ...
Read More »Dwarf planet Ceres may be home to alien life
Scientists have detected water on Ceres, a dwarf planet residing in our solar system’s asteroid belt. The Herschel Telescope detected water vapor spouting from Ceres. According to Michael Küppers of the European Space Agency, “This is the first clear-cut detection ...
Read More »Water in stardust suggests widespread life in the universe
Scientists have determined that stardust contains water, a discovery that suggests the universe is rife with life. Although scientists have previously suggested that dust grains floating through our solar system contain water, it has actually been detected for the first ...
Read More »Alien life could be more widespread than previously thought
According to a new study, researchers believe that Earth-sized planets can support life at least ten times farther away from their host stars than previously thought. Researchers from the University of Aberdeen and the University of St Andrews recently published ...
Read More »Live webcast: What might alien life look like?
Astrobiologists continue searching the Milky Way galaxy for worlds that may be hospitable for life. But when that life is found, what will its physical appearance be? David Aguilar will explore this question during a live webcast tonight, Thursday, December ...
Read More »Life could have been transfered to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn
A new study suggests that life could have been transferred from the inner solar system to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Panspermia, the theory that life can spread through space, has been studied by many scientists. Earlier this year, ...
Read More »Congressional hearings on extraterrestrial life
Scientists educated members of the U.S. House of Representatives about the search for extraterrestrial life.
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