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Sep 10, 2021 · Do aliens exist? Extraterrestrial life has never been discovered, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. At NASA, astrobiologists like Lindsay Hays are trying to answer one of the most profound questions ever: Is there life beyond Earth?
- UFOs are real (and the government knows it) In June, the Pentagon released a highly anticipated report detailing 144 UFO encounters between 2004 and 2021.
- Black holes could be alien powerhouses. While alien hunters spend plenty of time searching for habitable planets beyond our solar system, a study published in July in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society warns that scientists shouldn't overlook nature's most extreme objects: Black holes.
- Alien planets may look nothing like Earth. Typically, the search for alien life begins with the search for Earth-like planets — but there may be another class of alien world that is just as conducive to life, a study published in the Astrophysical Journal in August contends.
- One of Saturn's moon still holds potential for life. The methane wafting from Enceladus, Saturn's sixth largest moon, may be a sign that life teems in the moon's subsurface sea, a June study found.
Yet we’ve never seen aliens. Scientists estimate that there are roughly 60 billion planets in our galaxy that could support life. (AFP/Getty Images) This contradiction is called the Fermi...
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- Mateus Soto
A 2021 Gallup poll found that more than 40 percent of Americans believe that UFOs are alien spacecraft visiting Earth from other planets or galaxies. Are there aliens? Or are there different explanations for UFO sightings? Even the U.S. government wants answers—and has spent years secretly investigating the phenomena.
Aug 8, 2023 · KN explains how likely it may be that aliens exist and interviews a scientist helping in the search for extraterrestrial life and researchers studying UFOs.
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- Ainara Alleyne
Aug 15, 2023 · That has lots of people thinking about aliens. Do they exist? And if they do, what might they look like? We asked kids to share their ideas.
Jun 7, 2023 · For many people, the word “alien” conjures up images of little green men — beings that are at least somewhat similar to humans in appearance. But the aliens that astrobiologists (scientists who study the possibility of extraterrestrial life) expect to find tend to be a lot smaller.
