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Jan 13, 2023

Pentagon is struggling to explain more than 170 fresh UFO reports, new document reveals

The U.S. government has been inundated with hundreds of UFO encounter reports in the past year, and about half of them remain inexplicable, according to an unclassified document released by the Pentagon Thursday (Jan. 12). The 11-page report, filed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), reveals...

Jan 19, 2023

Alien life could be turning harsh planets into paradises — and astronomers want to find them

Once life gains even the tiniest foothold on a planet, it may have the power to transform that world, forcing us to broaden our definition of habitable, new research suggests. We don't really know where life might arise. We have only one example of a life-hosting planet, Earth, which started...

Jan 20, 2023

Is the sun a node in a gigantic alien space internet? Scientists scanned the skies to check.

Are aliens using a quirk of the sun's gravity to transmit information through an interstellar communication network? For the first time ever, astronomers explored this intriguing possibility and scanned for signals coming from hidden nonhuman probes orbiting the sun. So far, the method hasn't turned up signs of spacefaring aliens,...

Feb 3, 2023

8 possible alien 'technosignatures' detected around distant stars in new AI study

Using a new machine-learning algorithm, scientists have picked up eight extraterrestrial signals that seem to bear the hallmarks of technology. The research, published Jan. 30 in the journal Nature Astronomy, doesn't claim to have really found proof of intelligent aliens; a brief follow-up search for the signals detected in the...

Feb 13, 2023

US shoots down UFOs over Lake Huron and Canada

An unidentified flying object (UFO) was shot down over Lake Huron in Michigan on Sunday (Feb. 12) — the fourth such object detected over the U.S. in a little over a week. The flying object, which reports suggest was octagonal in shape and had strings hanging off of it, was...

Feb 14, 2023

Why are we seeing so many UFOs over America all of a sudden?

In the span of two weeks in February 2023, U.S. military pilots shot down four mysterious objects spotted over the United States and Canada. The military identified the first of these objects as a 200-foot-tall (60 meters) Chinese spy balloon, floating approximately 60,000 feet (18,200 meters) over Alaska in late...

Mar 15, 2023

'Unstable' moons may be obliterating alien life across the universe

The moon crashing into Earth may sound like an unrealistic doomsday scenario or the stuff of sci-fi disasters. But for some planets in other star systems, such catastrophic collisions may be common. New research published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society uses computer simulations to show...

Mar 22, 2023

Alien mothership lurking in our solar system could be watching us with tiny probes, Pentagon official suggests

Could an alien mothership be hovering around the solar system, sending out tiny probes to explore planets? According to a Harvard scientist and a Pentagon official, it’s possible. In a draft paper, the pair said it is feasible an extraterrestrial spaceship could be in our galactic neighborhood, exploring the region...

Mar 23, 2023

Aliens could be hiding in 'terminator zones' on planets with eternal night

Imagine if one side of the Earth always faced the sun. Half of the planet would be stuck in perpetual daylight, the other shrouded in permanent night. But for aliens in other solar systems, our doomsday scenario may be their everyday — and life might get along just fine. In...

Apr 8, 2023

Are aliens real?

Are aliens real? It's a good question. There currently isn't any evidence for life on other planets, but the universe is a big place, and it seems unlikely that out of the trillions of planets presumed to exist in our 13.8 billion-year-old universe, only Earth has ever hosted life. (This...

May 4, 2023

'Leaking' cell phone towers could lead aliens straight to Earth, new study suggests

If intelligent aliens are searching for other advanced lifeforms in the galaxy, our cell phone towers could be the beacons that give Earthlings away. New research suggests that advanced aliens in nearby star systems could probably already detect radio signals from cell phone towers. And as these signals become more...

May 23, 2023

James Webb telescope discovers gargantuan geyser on Saturn's moon, blasting water hundreds of miles into space

Scientists caught Saturn's icy moon Enceladus spraying a huge plume of watery vapor far into space — and that plume likely contains many of the chemical ingredients for life. Scientists detailed the eruption — glimpsed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in November 2022 — at a conference at...

May 29, 2023

Earth may have debris from alien star systems trapped in its orbit, new research suggests

Astronomers have found that renegade objects from alien star systems could be captured by Earth's gravity and linger in orbit around our planet for potentially millions of years. However, most of these objects would likely be too small to detect with current telescopes, according to a new study published May...

May 31, 2023

NASA concludes first-ever public UFO briefing. What did we learn?

NASA held the first public meeting to discuss the findings of its UAP independent study team today (May 31). The group, formed in June 2022, aims to examine data related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), a new term that encompasses objects or incidents in the sky, underwater or in space...

Jun 1, 2023

Repeated signals from the center of the Milky Way could be aliens saying hello, new study claims

Could intelligent aliens be lurking at the heart of the Milky Way? A new search for extraterrestrial life aims to find out by listening for radio pulses from the center of our galaxy. Narrow-frequency pulses are naturally emitted by stars called pulsars, but they're also used deliberately by humans in...