Pentagon UFO Report Finds No Evidence of Alien Cover-Up
UFOs are back in the news this week with the release of a long-awaited Pentagon report that was designed to address public interest in the topic. What Should Fans Take …
extraterrestrial life
How a Balloon Over Antarctica Will Help NASA Study the Mysterious Space Between Stars
A new NASA experiment will take to the skies on a balloon, scanning the space between the stars of our galaxy and listening for cosmic ingredients to understand how the …
NASA Didn’t Find Aliens—but if You See Any UFOs, Holler
Seventy-six years after the infamous Roswell incident, when a high-altitude balloon—or something—crashed in southeastern New Mexico, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has now officially weighed in on …
Scientists Say You’re Looking for Alien Civilizations All Wrong
An influential group of researchers is making the case for new ways to search the skies for signs of alien societies. They argue that current methods could be biased by …
In a Fierce Desert, Microbe ‘Crusts’ Show How Life Tamed the Land
At first glance, the grit crust could seem like a routine example of what researchers call a biological soil crust, or “biocrust”—a community of coexisting bacteria, fungi, algae, and other …
A New Idea for How to Assemble Life
According to assembly theory, before Darwinian evolution can proceed, something has to select for multiple copies of high-AI objects from the Assembly Possible. Chemistry alone, Cronin said, might be capable …
An Astrobiologist’s Search for Life in Space—and Meaning on Earth
I discovered over the past several years that I’m not as rare as I once thought I was. There are many people out there who have a science and arts …