The Search For Life, What’s the Point?
Another mission, another brave “search for life”… Is it me, or does virtually every robotic foray into space have some ET-searching component attached? In the case of Mars exploration, every lander...
View ArticleThe Day Aliens Invaded… [UPDATE]
UPDATE (Mon. 9:50 a.m. PT): Shocker. NASA refutes Hoover’s claims. Apparently his paper failed peer review for publication in the International Journal of Astrobiology… in 2007! More here: “NASA...
View ArticleCould Alien Spacecraft Propulsion Explain the Cosmic Mystery of Fast Radio...
It’s an “out there” hypothesis, but radiation from alien spacecraft zooming around space could account for the strange bursts of radio waves coming randomly from the deep cosmos. M. Weiss/CfA Powerful...
View ArticleAlien vs. Comet: Is the SETI “Wow!” Signal Dead? (Astroengine Video)
There’s a new hypothesis about what happened on August 15, 1977, and, sadly, it doesn’t involve aliens — just a photobombing comet. I was surprised about the controversy surrounding Antonio Paris’...
View ArticleIt’s a Trap: Extraterrestrial Ozone May be Hidden at Exoplanets’ Equators
ESO/M. KORNMESSER Fortunately for life on Earth, our planet has an ozone layer. This high-altitude gas performs an invaluable service to biology, acting as a kind of global “sunscreen” that blocks the...
View ArticleTabby’s Star Dust-Up: There’s No Alien Megastructure
Sadly, not aliens (NASA/Getty/Ian O’Neill) If you were hoping that the bizarre transit signals coming from Tabby’s Star were signs of a massive alien construction site, you’d better sit down. A new...
View ArticleSadly, ‘Oumuamua Isn’t Piloted by Joyriding Aliens
An international team of experts have teamed up to conclude that the interstellar visitor isn’t what we hoped it was. An artist’s impression of the strangely-elongated interstellar object ‘Oumuamua...
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