Extraterrestrial life

During a congressional hearing on UFOs, the Defense Department's under secretary for intelligence said transparency was the objective.

The hearing "will give the American people an opportunity to learn what there is to know about these incidents," said Rep. André Carson.

The panel chair for the upcoming hearing, Representative André Carson, said the issue of unidentified aerial phenomena was a "national security threat."

Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest physicists ever, once warned that aliens "may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria."

Relatively recent ice volcano activity on Pluto raises the possibility of liquid water beneath the freezing planet's surface.

Astronomers spotted the large organic molecule in a cashew-shaped "dust trap" around the young star IRS 48 located 444 light-years from Earth.

Avi Loeb, head of the Galileo Project investigating UFOs at Harvard, told Newsweek he doubted the government would release videos, and said a better approach is getting new data.

The mysterious space rock was noticed speeding through our solar system in 2017, and some have suggested it may have come from an intelligent civilization.

The past 12 months have been a bumper period for missions like NASA's Perseverance Rover, with evidence of water discovered beneath the Martian surface.

Scientists want to know if life exists in what are known as the Goldilocks zones around the sun's stellar neighbors. How long would getting there take?

The discovery of water vapor trailing the Jovian moon sets the scene for future missions that will determine if Europa could harbor life.

The "very strange" signal came from near the galactic center, and no current hypotheses can explain what caused it.

Red dwarfs often shoot out dangerous flares, but scientists have discovered their planets may be lucky enough to avoid them.

The U.S. government is expected to release a highly anticipated report on UFOs this week, sparking much interest in the possibility of alien life.

The former NBA star said he had been on a double date in 1997 when he witnessed something really strange.

The report follows the official release in 2020 by the Department of Defense of three videos showing Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.

The agency that administers the area said it has received "credible reports" the structure was removed "by an unknown party."

The Executive Director of the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, was arrested in California for allegedly soliciting sex from a detective posing online as a 13-year-old girl.

"There is a reasonable chance that the planet hosts a large ocean underneath the atmosphere at pressures and temperatures similar to those in the Earth's oceans," researcher Nikku Madhusudhan said.

"'Are we alone?' is one of the biggest unanswered questions," said study first author Howard Chen.

Human's evolved through a series of highly unlikely events—so finding another intelligence like us would be like winning the lottery many times over.

"I can't believe we are the only living entity in the universe," Didier Queloz said

Data from the Cassini mission have revealed molecules in ice grains emanating from the icy, water-rich world.

Two Dutch YouTubers drove three miles into the Nevada National Security Site in an attempt to access Area 51 and discover evidence of alien life.

Most Americans believe the governent is hiding something about UFOs, with the belief in extraterrestrial spaceships held by a substantial minority.

"In the search for life beyond our solar system, the most promising planets might not be Earth twins," says geochemist Stephanie Olson.

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The conference about a "major new science mission" will be held at 4 p.m. EDT.

The ocean is thought to be be billions of years old and may contain as much as three times the volume of all the liquid water on Earth.

Build-ups of toxic gases in the atmospheres of many exoplanets in the "habitable zone" could limit the "safe zone" in which life outside our solar system could actually exist.