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Jan 18, 2021 · By Elizabeth Kolbert. January 18, 2021. Encountering aliens would be surprising; the fact that we haven’t yet heard from any is perhaps even more so. Illustration by Paul Sahre. On October 19 ...
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On and off over the past decade, I’ve used radio telescopes to perform wide ranging experiments to search for technosignatures– signs of technological civilisations on planets elsewhere in our galaxy (the Milky Way). But after decades of many teams of experts using powerful telescopes, we still haven’t covered much territory. If the Milky Way is co...
The vast volume of the universe makes it very difficult to achieve interstellar travel, receive signals, or communicate with any potential far-off lifeforms (at least according to the laws of physics as we know them). Speeds are limited to the speed of light, which is around 300,000 km per second. It’s pretty fast. But even at that speed it would t...
Could it be aliens have crashed on Earth and the US government is just covering it up, as Republican Congressman Tim Burchett claimed in his reaction to the hearing? For airlines belonging to the International Air Transport Association, the chance of plane crash is about one in a million. That begs the question: do we think an alien spacecraft that...
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Jun 9, 2023 · You can sign up for Launchpad for free here. Aliens are in the headlines, but there still isn’t solid evidence that they’ve come to Earth. On 31 May, NASA’s new task force on unidentified ...
Dec 21, 2022 · The question no one can answer is when. Correction: The original version of this story misstated the number of planets within 50 light years of Earth estimated to harbor intelligent life. The ...
Feb 1, 2021 · There are, of course, science-fiction stories about aliens, and there are many unsubstantiated UFO reports. Now, suppose there was some literature about the magical properties of COVID-19 that had ...
Dec 26, 2022 · Despite some novel research ideas and a renewed commitment to the investigation of UFOs, however, 2022 can be characterized by steps forward and frustrating setbacks. 1. UFO 'turning point'. An ...
Jun 4, 2021 · Speculation about extraterrestrial beings coming to Earth — and potentially colonizing our planet, as humans have done to one another for millenniums — has long been fuel for movies and pulp ...
