Even as astronomers work toward the hotly anticipated milestone discovery of an Earth-like twin orbiting another star, researchers are already asking what it will take to detect the existence of extraterrestrial life on such a planet. First, the bad news: No telescope in existence seems to have the observing power to pick out the kinds [...]

For 10 years since SETI (Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence) founded in 1984, it was originally part of a wider NASA-funded search for extraterrestrial intelligence, until the space agency’s project encounters budget cuts. Because of what happen, the institute experiences a large commercial development and has relied on private donations and endowments in order to keep [...]

We tend to stereotype extraterrestrial life as little green men, but there are much more instructive examples of alien weirdness right under our oceans. In the following article,Dr. Craig McClain of Deep Sea News and theNational Evolutionary Synthesis Centerdiscusses what the deep seas can teach us about potential astrobiological organisms. We as humans have three fundamental questions. Where [...]

Manufactured UFO — 2011 Pictured is a quad copter — a deliberately manufactured UFO created by special effects wizard Marc Dantonio for a National Geographic special, “The Truth Behind: UFOs,” which aired in December 2011. On the left is what the small device looks like resting on the ground, measuring 4 feet in circumference. At [...]

From a distance, our galaxy would look like a flat spiral, some 100,000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxys center. Thick dust and blinding starlight have long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of the galactic center. And yet, the [...]

(NewsCore) – Scientists at the University of California-Berkeley have taken the first step in attempting to decipher signals they believe could have been sent by aliens. New research from the university’s Kepler team, a division of the Mountain View, Calif.-based Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, suggests that certain radio signals picked up by [...]