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The hacker collective Anonymous claims it has evidence that NASA is about to announce the discovery of intelligent and technologically advanced alien life. In a new message posted to their website, Anonymous claims that based on the evidence of a number o

“Taking into account all of the different activities and missions that are specifically searching for evidence of alien life, we are on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented, discoveries in history,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate

“This new insight may force us to rethink the whole cosmological context of how galaxies burn out early on and evolve into local elliptical-shaped galaxies," said study leader Sune Toft of the Dark Cosmology Center at the Niels Bohr Institute,...

Astronomers will set the sights of the European Southern Observatorys (ESO) 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla on nearby stars Proxima Centauri, Barnard's Star and Ross 154.

An unknown, unseen "planetary mass object" may lurk in the outer reaches of our solar system, according to new research on the orbits of minor planets to be published in the Astronomical Journal. This object would be different fromand much closer thanthe

Nasa has announced the discovery of 219 new planets outside our solar system. The figure includes 10 that are rocky and raw like Earth and which exist in their solar system's'Goldilocks zone', neither too close to their star, and therefore too

NASA has announced the Kepler space telescope has identified 219 potential new exoplanet candidates and 10 could be habitable.

NASA will announce the latest crop of planet discoveries from the Kepler Space Telescope during a briefing Monday morning (June 19)

The billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX wants to make humanity a "multi-planetary species”

While the space agency has disclosed little information about the findings, the new results from the Kepler mission are said to be ‘the most complete and reliable accounting of distant worlds. Scientists from the Astrophysics Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, as well as the Search for

Good news, it's replicable. Bad news, no aliens The mystery of the "Wow!" signal, a radio return that was recorded from outer space in 1977, has finally been solved.…

According to new analysis, at least six of the seven exoplanets boast an Earth-like consistency and are likely composed mostly of dense rock.

Supermassive black holes are thought to lie at the heart of almost all galaxies. But some theorists suggest that there's something else there instead—not a black hole, but an even stranger supermassive object that has somehow managed to avoid gravitat

During an episode of 60 minutes Mr Bigelow began to talk about his belief in aliens – and his claim that UFOs have come to Earth and extraterrestrials have an “existing presence” here.

(Phys.org)European astronomers report the detection of a new extrasolar world several times more massive than Earth. The newly found exoplanet, classified as a so-called "super-Earth," is circling a nearby star designated GJ 625. The researchers detailed

Credit: NASAThe orbits of all seven Earth-size planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system are now known. Astronomers have nailed down the path of TRAPPIST-1h, the outermost planet in the system, finding that this world takes just under 19 Earth days to complet

NASA spends a lot of timeresearching the Earth and its surrounding space environment. One particular feature of interest arethe Van Allen belts, so much so that NASA built special probes...

NASA (National Space and Aeronautics Administration) has detected an artificial barrier a protective belt, as it were encircling the Earth in a defensive shield, scientists say. The ...

The mysterious star that was found to be dimming in 2015 (prompting speculation about an alien megastucture) has been spotted dimming again! The post The Star That Probably Doesn’t Have an Alien Megastructure (But Maybe it Does) is Dimming Again app

Astronomers have uncovered a moon orbiting the third largest dwarf planet, 2007 OR10, in the frigid outskirts of our solar system called the Kuiper Belt.