Tagged: Alien

Could microbes communicate with alien species?

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Predrag Slijepcevic, Senior Lecturer in Biology, Brunel University London Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, Honorary Professor, University of Buckingham Are we alone in the universe? The famous...

Astronomers spot 1st moon-forming disk around an alien world

Astronomers have discovered the first disk surrounding a planet outside the solar system. The impressive circumplanetary disk is about 500 times larger than Saturn’s rings and encircles a Jupiter-like planet dubbed PDS 70c. Scientists have seen plenty of disks surrounding distant stars, and moon-forming disks...

Alien abduction’ stories may come from lucid dreaming, study hints

Lucid dreaming, in which people are partially aware and can control their dreams during sleep, could explain so-called alien abduction stories, a study suggests. Claims of such abductions date to the 19th century; the circumstances of the kidnappings often sound dreamlike and trigger feelings of...

Dozens of starless ‘rogue’ alien planets possibly spotted

Astronomers have spotted more strange “free-floating” planets that could roam deep space untethered to any star. While we might think that planets must need to orbit some kind of star, astronomers have detected such orphaned “rogues” before. And a new study uses data collected by NASA’s...

Listen: Have Aliens Already Visited Us?

Theoretical physicist Avi Loeb of Harvard wants you to think seriously about the possibility that an artifact made by an extraterrestrial intelligence passed through our solar system in 2017. This object – called ‘Oumuamua, or scout, by earthly astronomers – was traveling at a speed...