Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

Why do we tend to assume that UFOs are crafts carrying alien beings rather than alien beings themselves? How the UFO ...

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The search for life beyond Earth has always been full of surprises. Strange radio signals have sparked excitement. Odd gases on distant worlds have raised questions. Even ordinary objects have been ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

With new technologies come new opportunities. And that is especially true in astronomy—with every new advanced telescope, we ...

NASA's new alien-hunting telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), will be serviceable out in space (and it will ...

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When a radio signal leaves a distant planet, it does not immediately travel through empty space. First, it has to pass through the turbulent environment surrounding its home star, and that short ...

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Plenty of low budget producers saw how audiences responded to space monsters and jungle hunters and quickly made their own versions with familiar setups and creature designs. Here are twenty movies ...

JWST has revealed dramatic differences between the dawn and dusk regions of the scorching exoplanet WASP-121 b. Fierce winds appear to carry heat from the planet’s permanent dayside, making the ...