This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence ...

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Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

Long before modern space exploration, scientists proposed astonishing ways to contact extraterrestrials—from giant burning ...

Scientists are calling for a lunar quarantine facility where samples from Mars, the Moon, and beyond would be examined before being brought to Earth. They warn that even a tiny alien microorganism ...

IDW Publishing is highlighting the best part of Star Trek with its reprints of classic Trek comics that explore the franchise ...

A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the Trump administration to ...

Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks ...

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