This Is Why We Probably Haven't Encountered Alien Life Yet
Where does this obsession with alien life come from? Is it sheer terror of being truly alone in the cosmos, in an atomized, existentially senseless world?
Read MoreWhere does this obsession with alien life come from? Is it sheer terror of being truly alone in the cosmos, in an atomized, existentially senseless world?
Read MoreArea 51 is reportedly just another government facility sitting ominously in the middle of the Nevada desert, home to the usual government weirdness like military tests and secretive operations with code names like the Watertown Project and Skunk Works. How did it come to be associated with aliens?
Read MoreHe knew more about the universe than most of us. Basically, we should take whatever Hawking believed with a sense of weight. Even when he suggested that aliens would kill us.
Read MoreWhen the news of Blink-182's second falling apart, due to Tom DeLonge's lack of interest, started to spread in 2015, people nodded in an understanding manner. However, in 2016, he told Mic that he primarily broke from Blink-182 to form a new company that would focus on UFOs.
Read MoreAs Professor Carol Cleland points out, astrobiology can begin with home-grown alien life.
Read MoreTurns out, scientists don't even have to go into outer space to search for extraterrestrial life. Sometimes outer space just comes to them in the form of meteorites.
Read MoreFor that reason, astrobiologists spend most of their time examining the most extreme environments here on Earth in an effort to extrapolate potential habitats in the universe beyond. One such environment was recently uncovered in a new study of a substance known as "flammable ice".
Read MoreIn our relatively short occupation of Planet Earth, humanity has made spectacular technological leaps forward. Will 2020 be the year when we, at long last, make contact with an alien organism? No, probably not. Here's why.
Read MoreOdiferous underarms, moldy cheese feet, rancid roadkill and acrid eggs -- there's a lot of stank out there, and generally we want nothing to do with it. But now scientists have identified one of the stinkiest molecules of all as a sign of potential alien life.
Read MoreStrap yourself into that flying saucer, buddy, because aliens are (maybe) coming sooner than you think.
Read MoreFor a decent chunk of the population, the Bible is the go-to, end-all resource for information about, well, everything. But what do we do when we have more complex questions? Questions like, "Are aliens out there somewhere?" and "Are they going to heaven?" What does the Bible say about aliens?
Read MoreThe History Channel's smash hit program Ancient Aliens has either been around for roughly a decade, or, alternatively, was created eons ago by visitors from another world, if you subscribe to the ancient aliens theory of Ancient Aliens. Here's what archaeologists really think of Ancient Aliens.
Read MoreIn 2009, the History Channel's Ancient Aliens took a far-out concept and blew it up. Here are some fun and interesting facts about Ancient Aliens.
Read MoreAlien evidence doesn't just come from crackpot conspiracy theorists. There are many mysteries so beyond explanation, the only reasonable conclusion is "aliens."
Read MoreTypically, alien abductees disappear into obscurity, but some claims are so outlandish and over-the-top, that disappearing into obscurity was not an option.
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