Search results
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,...
Alien astronomers might be looking in our direction from distant planets. What would they see? We've been searching the heavens for some time now. But despite decades of listening for tell-tale...
Jan 6, 2020 · Aliens definitely exist, Britain’s first astronaut has said – and it’s possible they’re living among us on Earth but have gone undetected so far. Helen Sharman, who visited the Soviet Mir space...
- 1 min
- A Drop in An Ocean
- What Would It Take to Make contact?
- Cover Ups?
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...
- Steven Tingay
Feb 5, 2022 · Adam Gabbatt in New York. Sat 5 Feb 2022 03.00 EST. L ast year was a breakthrough time for UFOs, as a landmark government report prompted the possibility of extraterrestrial visitors to finally be...
Jun 4, 2021 · Interest in the idea that alien beings might be visiting Earth from off-planet has skyrocketed in recent years, particularly after the Pentagon verified that several videos showing what look to...
Extraterrestrial life, alien life, or colloquially simply aliens is life which does not originate from Earth. No extraterrestrial life has yet been conclusively detected. Such life might range from simple forms such as prokaryotes to intelligent beings, possibly bringing forth civilizations that might be far more advanced than humanity.
