Extraterrestrial life

A team of astronomers has proposed peering into the inconspicuous region between host stars and their soot lines to find habitable worlds beyond our solar system.First Full-Color Images From Webb Space TelescopeThere are few known…

The prospect of receiving an alien signal is both exhilarating and daunting, and we’ll actually get to experience it on Wednesday—or at least, a simulation of such a thing, as a group of scientists and artists carry out a fascinating…

A celestial object appears in an old telescopic plate (left) but is strangely missing in a later plate (right).Image: B. Villarroel et al. (2019)Research from last year identified around 100 vanishing stars, which, as the name suggests,…

TRAPPIST-1b is a superhot rocky world just 40 light-years away. Astronomers recently trained the Webb Space Telescope this exoplanet, a world in the TRAPPIST-1 star system, and found that it’s devoid of an atmosphere.The finding could…

An artist’s concept of LUVOIR, a 15-meter telescope that was an early NASA concept for a future space telescope. The newly described Habitable Worlds Telescope wouldn’t be quite as large as this.NASA officials disclosedinformation about…

The apparent signals were captured by the Sky Eye telescope in China, which is designed to search for extraterrestrial radio transmissions. Image: STR/AFP (Getty Images)Yesterday, Science and Technology Daily, a state-backed media outlet…

NASA will commission a team of scientists to begin investigating unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) this fall, the agency announced today.UAPs are simply unidentified flying objects (UFOs) with less of a little-green-alien connotation…

Several videos by US Navy Pilots have caught odd looking aircraft pulling off weird maneuvers. Image: US Department of DefenseCongress is holding its first public hearing on unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) in decades in light of a…

UFO sightings are no longer restricted to grainy YouTube videos or alien conspiracy subreddits. A House panel will hold the first congressional hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) in over 50 years to follow up with a Pentagon…

A view of the Milky Way galaxy. Image: NASAAn international team of scientists has formulated an updated, binary-coded message that could eventually be transmitted to aliens in our galaxy. It’s jam-packed with details, including the…