For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...
It’s one of the most popular themes in science fiction—top secret government experts are ready to spring into action if a UFO appears. For example, in the novella-based 2016 film Arrival, the ...
For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...
The Drake Equation helps scientists estimate the odds of finding intelligent alien civilizations. It’s an age-old question: Do aliens exist? And what are the odds we’ll make contact? A famous ...
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Technosignatures are theoretical signs of technologically advanced alien civilizations, but so far, none of those civilizations have phoned home. Researchers from the Search for ExtraTerrestrial ...
What new methods can be used to detect alien technosignatures? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers from Pennsylvania ...
The unusual specimen raised eyebrows because it appeared capable of causing levitation. An official investigation has not ...
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