No evidence of alien life so far in the Pentagon’s UFO deep-dive
- 17-Dec-2022
The Pentagon’s new push to investigate reports of UFOs has so far not yielded any evidence to suggest that aliens have visited Earth or crash-landed here, senior military leaders said on Friday. However, the Pentagon’s effort to investigate anomalous, unidentified objects — whether they are in space, the skies or even underwater — led to […]
Visitor from alien star system wears insulating coat: astronomers
- 18-Dec-2017
A cigar-shaped rock zooming through our Solar System — the first object from a foreign star system ever spotted in our midst — is cloaked in a coat of organic material, astronomers said Monday. Dubbed Oumuamua, Hawaiian for “messenger” or “scout”, the object was first viewed by telescopes in October. Given its weird trajectory, surprised […]
Are Earthlings alone? Half of humans believe in alien life
- 08-Dec-2017
AMSTERDAM: Nearly half of humans believe in alien life and want to make contact, a survey in 24 countries has found, in what researchers said helps to explain the lasting popularity of the “Star Wars” franchise 40 years after the first movie was screened. On the eve of the release of “The Last Jedi”, researchers […]
Astronomers discover Earth-like planet just 11 light years away
- 16-Nov-2017
A temperate planet has been discovered only 11 light-years from Earth by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) , the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organization in Europe. A team working with ESO’s High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile has found that the red dwarf star Ross 128 is orbited by […]
Unearthed essay on alien life reveals Churchill the scientist
- 17-Feb-2017
LONDON: A newly unearthed essay by Winston Churchill shows Britain’s wartime leader was uncannily prescient about the possibility of alien life on planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. The 11-page article was drafted on the eve of World War Two in 1939 and updated in the 1950s, decades before astronomers discovered the first extrasolar planets […]