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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsUFO sightings are often of saucer- or disc-shaped objects. Is there any evidence... ...

From the San Francisco Chronicle… Stargazing scientists have recently begun to focus on the prospect of encountering intelligent extraterrestrials, and the more they think about it the more ...

In a recent scientific game of “Let’s Just Make Up Some Shit to Talk About” a scientist has declared that space may be littered with trillions of alien ...

Joe Rogan and Sir Roger Penrose discuss the possibility of alien life in the past, present, and/or future. Check out the entire episode of the Joe Rogan Podcast ...

Renewed US interest could produce some fascinating hearings, but the focus should be on the quality not just the quantity of reported sightings There’s renewed interest in the UFO phenomenon and it’s coming from an unexpected source: the United States ... ...

Welcome to the future, folks. President Trump just called on the Pentagon to create a Military Space Force. “What are we going to fight in space?” you might ...

The search for alien life continues, but how near are we to finding life on other planets – and will we ever answer the question ‘are we alone’? In less than an hour, the decision was made. It was 2 December and Avi Loeb, an astronomy professor at Harv... ...

US army efforts in 1947 to put ‘wiretapping’ balloons in the mesosphere led to flying saucer tales but ultimately to scientists finding natural channels of communicationSeventy years ago a rancher near Roswell, New Mexico, found some peculiar wreckage ... ...

As if Pluto didn’t feel bad enough about being demoted to a mere dwarf planet, astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin at the California Institute of Technology may have ...

From flying saucers to alien life on other planets, our lessons will help you explore all things extra-terrestrial from the comfort of your classroomIs it a bird? Is it a plane? If you have to ask, then – technically – it is an unidentified flying obje... ...