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There is a very large scientific leap from observing a fireball to claiming it as an alien spaceship.
Can artificial intelligence transform the search for alien intelligence?
AI loves to cheat, but new research shows it doesn’t do so when analysing the atmospheres of exoplanets.
Organic human-level intelligence may be just a brief interlude in human history before the machines take over.
A new nine-page report, requested by Congress, doesn’t say what the 144 UFO sightings from 2004 to 2021 are, but does say that the government wants to learn more.
Even if aliens exist, are intelligent like humans and interested in making contact with us, what are the chances they’ll be close enough for us to hear them screaming their presence into the cosmos?
Considering what we know about the key ingredients for life’s formation on Earth, here are three explanations for how this process may have occurred on our sister planet.
The Universe is mind-bogglingly large and with the latest technology, the search is only just starting to heat up.
As more than a million people have indicated plans to partake in a citizen ‘raid’ on the famed Area 51 to ‘see them aliens,’ a scholar on the search for extraterrestrial life weighs in on the hype.
NASA’s InSight Mars lander touches down Nov. 26, part of a careful robotic approach to exploring the red planet. But human exploration of Mars will inevitably introduce Earth life. Are you OK with that?
Nearly 50 years since the first man walked on the moon, our morals are still stranded on Earth.
Following NASA’s latest discovery of organic matter on the red planet, new findings in a salt lake in California could point to where to look for alien life.
Ten new remote cameras will soon be scouring the British night skies for meteorites.
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Professor and Director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, UNSW Sydney
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Co Director Space Technology and Industry Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor (Radio Astronomy), Curtin University
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Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Earth System Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State
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Lecturer in Planetary Geoscience, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow
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Reader in Planetary Science, Imperial College London
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of St Andrews
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University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
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