Cut the Alien Jokes, These Mysterious Spheres Are Likely Space Debris

The discovery bemused residents of a small town in northeastern Australia. The objects appear to be junk from a space launch, ...
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In our search for alien life, a swarm of space telescopes could be the missing link

The European-led LIFE mission aims to use spacecraft in formation to look for biosignatures.

NASA will have to find a way to service its new alien-hunting space telescope

NASA's new alien-hunting telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), will be serviceable out in space (and it will ...

There’s a Chilling Reason Why We Haven’t Made Contact With Aliens Yet, Scientists Say

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...
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The Search for Alien Artifacts Is Coming Into Focus

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

Baseline tool could separate alien life signals from geology on ocean worlds

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...