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'Leaking' cell phone towers could lead aliens straight to Earth, new study suggests
By Stephanie Pappas published
Advanced alien civilizations could probably already tell that there's intelligent life on Earth, thanks to our cell phone towers.
Are aliens real?
By Stephanie Pappas published
Are aliens real? While there is no current evidence for extraterrestrial life anywhere in the universe, scientists are still optimistic.
Aliens could be hiding in 'terminator zones' on planets with eternal night
By Briley Lewis published
Alien life could thrive in terminator zones, the edges between the light and dark sides of planets that are tidally locked with their host stars.
Alien mothership lurking in our solar system could be watching us with tiny probes, Pentagon official suggests
By Hannah Osborne published
A draft paper by a Harvard scientist and the head of the Pentagon’s UFO office has raised the idea an alien mothership could be in the solar system, sending out tiny probes dubbed "dandelion seeds" to explore the planets within.
'Unstable' moons may be obliterating alien life across the universe
By Briley Lewis published
Simulations show that collisions between moons and planets may be a regular danger for possible extraterrestrial life.
Why are we seeing so many UFOs over America all of a sudden?
By Brandon Specktor published
The U.S. military shot down three unidentified objects in a single weekend. Why are America's skies so filled with UFOs all of a sudden?
US shoots down UFOs over Lake Huron and Canada
By Tia Ghose last updated
The U.S. shot down a UFO over Lake Huron on Sunday, while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the U.S. shot down an unidentified flying object over the Yukon, Canada at his request.
8 possible alien 'technosignatures' detected around distant stars in new AI study
By Stephanie Pappas published
Eight signals from far-off stars probably aren't aliens, but the machine learning method that found them holds promise in the search for real extraterrestrials.
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