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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?
Nov 25, 2023 · UFOs are real, and the government is aware. But that doesn't mean we know what they are and that they are signs of alien technology. (Video: Monica Rodman, Sarah Hashemi/The Washington Post)
- 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.
Jan 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, 2017, a Canadian astronomer named Robert...
- Jonti Horner, Astrobiologist
- Steven Tingay, Astrophysicist
- Helen Maynard-Casely, Planetary Scientist
- Rebecca Allen, Space Technology Expert
- Martin Van-Kranendonk, Astrobiologist
I think that has to be a definite yes. But I think the real question is, are aliens close enough for us to discover them? Space is unbelievably big. In the last few decades, we've learned almost every star in the cosmos has planets. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is estimated to have up to 400 billion stars. If each of those has five planets, we'd have...
Yes, but that's a bold assertion. So, let's be clear what we are talking about. I consider the term "alien" to reference all manner of life, as we understand it on Earth, resident in places other than on Earth. Having said that, there is currently no detailed consensus on the definition of "life". It is a very complex concept. But if we found somet...
I'm of the opinion that it's only a matter of time before we find something that resembles biology somewhere other than on Earth. This is because we're increasingly finding various potential pockets in our solar system that may be hospitable to life as we know it. For instance, consider the under-ice oceans of Europa and Ganymede (two of Jupiter's ...
Yes, but they probably don't look like us. There are more than 100 billion planets estimated to exist in our galaxy alone (with some six billion potentially being Earth-like). Therefore, the probability that life exists elsewhere is all but confirmed. When we hear the word "alien", however, an image of a humanoid lifeform usually springs to mind. B...
A simple answer to this question is no. If we use purely empirical data and assume the question refers to any type of life outside of Earth that is not related to human activity, then the answer – as far as we know – must be no. But, of course, our knowledge relating to this question is finite; we have not investigated every corner of the Universe ...
Apr 8, 2023 · No, the James Webb Space Telescope probably didn't detect signs of alien life — but it soon could Aliens may be hitching rides on meteors to colonize the cosmos, study suggests. Here's how we...
Sep 14, 2023 · UFO on camera. A Nasa probe into hundreds of UFO sightings found there was no evidence aliens were behind the unexplained phenomena, but the space agency also could not rule out that possibility....
