Extraterrestrial Life

SETI: The Search Goes On

November 13, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter In this new video, SETI founder Frank Drake and astronomer Jill Tarter about why the search of the cosmos is important and needed. Visit SETI online to learn more about the search for signals of extraterrestrial life using radio telescopes on [...]

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“Tidal Venuses” May Have Been Wrung Out To Dry

March 28, 2012

Earth-sized exoplanets within a distant star’s habitable zone could still be very much uninhabitable, depending on potential tidal stresses — either past or present — that could have “squeezed out” all the water, leaving behind a bone-dry ball of rock. Remove this ad

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No Alien Visits or UFO Coverups, White House Says

November 5, 2011

The White House has responded to two petitions asking the US government to formally acknowledge that aliens have visited Earth and to disclose to any intentional withholding of government interactions with extraterrestrial beings. “The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged [...]

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Calm Down: NASA Hasn’t Found any Aliens

November 30, 2010

You may have heard in your wanderings through the blogosphere and in the internet today that NASA will be holding a press conference on December 2nd in which they will make an announcement regarding information the search for extraterrestrial life. And that this announcement involves astrobiology, the study of life outside what we know about [...]

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Extraterrestrial Life

November 9, 2010

Extraterrestrial life has been the subject of books, articles, and dreams for centuries. Until recently, that is all that is was…a vast wealth of speculation. In the last few decades discoveries gathered by space missions to Mars and the discovery of planets within the habitable zone of extrasolar planets have made the possibility of life [...]

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