Articles about Aliens

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Microsoft joins with students to document humanity with a ‘Golden Record’ of glass

Forty-seven years after NASA sent a “Golden Record” into deep space to document humanity’s view of the world, Microsoft’s Project… Read More

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What if the aliens win? That’s the subject of a new saga from creators of ‘The Expanse’

In nearly all alien-invasion tales, the puny humans somehow find a way to win — for example, in classic novels… Read More

Pacific Northwest forests provide the perfect breeding ground for a sci-fi tale about alien invasion

If you’re going to write a novel about an alien fungus threatening the planet, there are few places more suited… Read More

Scientists look for new ways to track the technosignatures of alien civilizations

Could extraterrestrial civilizations leave their fingerprints as chlorofluorocarbons in planetary atmospheres, or the waste heat generated by industrial processes, or… Read More

44 years after its first message to aliens, Arecibo Observatory calls for follow-up

The Arecibo Observatory today kicked off a student-focused competition to design a new message to beam to extraterrestrials, 44 years… Read More

‘Oumuamua, oh my! Was interstellar object actually an alien solar sail? Not so fast

‘Oumuamua is long gone from the inner solar system, but the mystery surrounding the interstellar interloper has been rekindled, thanks… Read More

Are we alone? NASA turns to the search for technosignatures beyond Earth

It’s been a quarter-century since Congress cut off NASA funding for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, but now… Read More

Search warrant links evacuation at solar observatory to child porn investigation

A federal search warrant indicates that the Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico and surrounding homes were evacuated this month… Read More

Officials explain why they closed Sunspot Solar Observatory (and it wasn’t aliens)

After days of fighting rumors about alien visitations, the managers of the Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico say they’re… Read More

Astrobiologist lays out undersea scenario for intelligent life on alien water worlds

Instead of cave dwellers gathered around a campfire, roasting mastodon meat, imagine an octopus tribe floating around a hydrothermal vent… Read More

Scientists come up with revised ‘Rio scale’ to rate claims of extraterrestrial contact

For almost 60 years, efforts to pick up signs of extraterrestrial civilizations have yielded a big fat zero, but there… Read More

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How do we get our message across to the extraterrestrials? The answers are evolving

LOS ANGELES — Last year, scientists sent a binary-coded message telling the aliens what time it was. Next year, it’ll… Read More

What if scientists find signs of alien life? Experiment suggests we won’t freak out

AUSTIN, Texas — If extraterrestrial life exists, there’s a chance we’ll detect it sometime in the next 20 years. And then… Read More

How scientists are expanding the spectrum for SETI and the search for alien life

BERKELEY, Calif. — Twenty years after the movie “Contact” brought the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, to the big… Read More

‘Sónar Calling’ campaign broadcasts music and messages to an alien super-Earth

Scientists and artists have banded together to beam coded radio transmissions toward a star that has a potentially habitable planet,… Read More

Voyager at 40: ‘The Search for Life in Space’ puts big question on the big screen

What better way to celebrate 40 years of NASA’s interplanetary Voyager mission than with an eye-filling movie that brings the… Read More

Alien-hunting Breakthrough Listen project tracks strange series of 15 radio bursts

Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million initiative aimed at stepping up the search for alien signals, says it’s picked up an… Read More

Astronomers now think they know what that ‘weird’ radio signal from space was

A week ago, astronomers using the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico were intrigued about a radio signal they picked… Read More

The internet goes all atwitter over U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher’s questions about Mars civilization

What game was U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., playing when he asked Caltech geochemist Kenneth Farley whether there was any… Read More

Seemingly strange radio signals from a red dwarf star spark interest at Arecibo

The 1,000-foot-wide radio telescope at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory will take a closer look at a red dwarf star known… Read More

‘Life’ horror movie sparks reality check on procedures for studying Mars samples

Spoiler Alert! This article doesn’t reveal any major plot twists, but wait to read it if you’re trying to stay… Read More

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What GeekWire’s top stories of 2016 say about the state of humanity

Unprecedented global connectivity, a search for solitude in a fast-paced world, a yearning to connect with something bigger than ourselves … and,… Read More

Project Blue kicks off $1 million crowdfunding campaign to seek out Alpha Centauri’s alien Earths

How much would you pay to find out whether Alpha Centauri’s twin suns possess blue planets like Earth? Project Blue… Read More

How aliens and Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell got tangled up in WikiLeaks emails

WikiLeaks’ purloined emails cover a wide range of issues that were handled by Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, but… Read More

A not-so-simple response: Messages beamed to aliens amid debate over perils

More than 3,000 messages were beamed toward the North Star today by a powerful radio telescope – and although the exercise… Read More

They’re not saying it’s aliens, but signal traced to sunlike star sparks SETI interest

SETI researchers are buzzing about a strong spike in radio signals that seemed to come from the direction of a… Read More

Have any alien civilizations ever existed? Astronomers say the chances are sky-high

Are we alone? Fifty-five years ago, astronomer Frank Drake came up with an equation that weighed the odds for aliens,… Read More

Siberian unicorns? Five incredible science tales that aren’t April Fool’s jokes

Unicorns are real! Scientists propose cloaking device to protect Earth from aliens! Glow-in-the-dark skin grown in lab! Those may sound… Read More

How to do a reality check on the search for life beyond our solar system

The past decade has brought about a revolution in astronomers’ ability to detect potentially habitable planets, and there’s much, much… Read More

Why haven’t we found aliens? Here’s the bad news, and the good news

It’s a question that goes back decades: If other civilizations have arisen beyond Earth over the course of billions of… Read More