Extraterrestrial Life

A U.S. scientist wants to detect Mars life and teleport it to Earth. And he already has the technology to do it.

A scientist recently proposed the establishment of a lottery bond as a means to provide funding for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

Researchers recently determined that one in five Sun-like stars in the Milky Way host potentially habitable Earth-sized planets

A new book looks at astrobiology and the implications of encountering extraterrestrial life.

A new survey shows that atheists and agnostics are 76% more likely than Christians to believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life. Overall 37% of those surveyed were willing to say they believed in the existence of extraterrestrial life, only 21% said they did not believe. However, most people (42%) were reticent to commit either way saying the just aren't sure.

An initiative is underway to convince NASA to beam a message to intelligent extraterrestrials from Earth that will be stored in the memory of the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft. The New Horizons Message Initiative is led by several researchers including ...

Some scientists believe red rain that fell in India is proof of extraterrestrial life.

NASA reported yesterday that the Curiosity rover has not found high levels of methane in the Martian atmosphere, dashing hopes of what was expected to be another strong indication of life on Mars.

In his new book titled Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Professor David Wilkinson examines the effect the discovery of life on other planets may have on religion. He also is not afraid to tackle the topic of UFOs, which he says is “too often dismissed.”

A team of scientists recently discovered 100,000-year-old microbes in a lake beneath the ice in Antarctica. Scientists continue to study extreme environments on Earth to better understand the types of environments in which life could exist elsewhere in the universe. ...

A team of British scientists believe they have found alien life in meteor shower debris they collected during the Perseid meteor shower.

Will colonists find life on Mars?

A new study contributes to the theory that Earth life began on Mars and was transported here via meteorite. On Wednesday, August 28, biochemist Steven Benner of Florida’s Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology presented evidence at the annual Goldschmidt ...

An “alien head” was unearthed from a Croatian graveyard. Workers made the odd discovery while excavating to extend a graveyard in the Donja Dubrava district of Zagreb, Croatia. The head-like object was found approximately one meter below the surface and ...

A former NASA official who helped initiate the government’s search for intelligent extraterrestrial life died on August 4 at the age of 83. Dr. John Billingham studied medicine and received his degree in physiology at Oxford University in his native ...

Super star planet hunter, Geoff Marcy, has been credited with finding nearly three-quarters of the first 100 exoplanets discovered with the Kepler space telescope. Now he has sought and been awarded a grant to search for ET spacecraft and an ...

A SETI project is studying proposed messages to extraterrestrials.

Mathematicians from Edinburgh University have conducted a study demonstrating the possibility that an advanced extraterrestrial civilization could use self-replicating probes to study the galaxy. Their findings show that their theoretical alien probes could have already arrived.

Baron Davis, a two-time NBA All-Star who most recently played for the Knicks, says he was abducted by aliens two weeks ago while driving from Las Vegas to LA.

A popular mural meant to welcome visitors to Roswell depicting a nervous alien family being greeted by hospitable earthlings has been burglarized. Someone stole the alien baby.