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Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has been appointed by the White House to lead a team investigating unidentified anomalous ...

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With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

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A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

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Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb argues 3I/ATLAS and other interstellar objects may hint at alien technology, drawing fame, ...