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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Denise Wheeler suggests Portsmouth Historical Society's Betty and Barney Hill exhibit shows how local history strengthens ...

A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

A planet with one side permanently roasting and the other frozen in endless darkness might still have a chance of supporting life. Researchers found that heat inside a tidally locked exoplanet could ...

NASA’s Viking 1 lander set down in the Chryse Planitia region of Mars. Its identical twin, Viking 2, followed on Sept. 3 of ...

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has found strong evidence that a plant's ability to reproduce on its own—through ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

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Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

Scientists are raising concerns that we may be overlooking evidence of extraterrestrial life even when it is present. Hidden ...

Spielberg’s new film explores humanity's reaction to proven extraterrestrial existence. 1993’s "Fire In the Sky" is acclaimed for its terrifying alien abduction sequence. Based on Travis Walton’s ...