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The ExoLife Finder (ELF) looks like no telescope ever built. A spectacular crown of 15 five-meter mirrors perches atop a ...

These findings suggest that the absence of past detections does not mean discovery is imminent. If extraterrestrial ...

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Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

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Alien: Covenant, Ridley Scott's divisive sequel to Prometheus, has quietly reached a significant streaming milestone in the U ...

While the document appeared on the CIA's website, it was merely a translation of a newspaper article based on a fabricated ...

If the government confirms nonhuman intelligence, psychological research offers clues about the range of ways humans might ...

What looked like a historic arrival took a bizarre turn when the visitors skipped the White House at first and went searching for ice cream instead. The scene only got stranger as they later returned ...