Aliens could be living on planet dubbed 'Earth's next-door neighbour'

'This one's exciting.' ...

'Our Next-Door Neighbor': Nearby 'Super Earth' Mass Downgrade Skyrockets Chances for Alien Life

Astronomers have sharply revised down the mass of nearby super Earth GJ 3378b, dramatically improving its prospects as a ...

LEGO Announces E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Figure That's Roughly Quarter Life Size

Lovable alien E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial will soon be able to buy and build in LEGO form, with movable appendages and a light ...
autoevolution

Telescope Uses Ripples in Space-Time to Detect a Huge Planet for the First Time

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed a distant planet located 40,000 light-years away using microlensing for the first time.
SETI Institute

How Clouds Hide Alien Worlds—and How Astronomers See Through Them

While telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can detect the chemical fingerprints of distant atmospheres, ...
Knowing Neurons

The Neuroscience of Octopuses: Why People Think They’re Aliens (And Why They’re Not)

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

White House UFO council will be led by Harvard professor known for controversial alien theories

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

Harvard professor with polarizing alien theories is picked to lead Trump administration UFO council

Avi Loeb, a cosmologist who studied black holes and served as head of Harvard’s astronomy department until 2020, was recently appointed to helm a new scientific advisory council tasked with ...
New Scientist

This physicist is hunting for the biggest black hole in the universe

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...
Mashable

Webb reveals a pink alien world wrapped in salt clouds

An enormous world orbiting a sun-like star just 57 light-years away in space may have a pink hue and a sky filled with clouds of salt. "Distant object" is about as precise of a label as it gets for ...