For generations, mankind has dreamed of exploring new worlds and finding life elsewhere. While the Apollo 11 mission was monumental for being the first time that a human being had set foot on another planetary […]
When humans think of aliens, they often imagine highly advanced civilizations that have been around much longer than our own, and that have had the opportunity to explore the cosmos using technologies far beyond our […]
Are we alone in the universe? Many people who argue that alien life must exist say that it is impossible that Earth could be the only planet capable of sustaining life. They state that it […]
Since the 1990’s, astronomers have discovered around two thousand planets located outside of our solar system, including gas giants, icy planets, and rocky worlds, most of which are orbiting outside of their parent star’s habitable […]
At the end of September, NASA announced the discovery of occasional streaks of flowing salty water on the slopes of mountainsides, canyons and craters on the southern hemisphere of Mars. A week later, and the […]
If you take UFO sightings seriously then you would certainly have heard of the Hessdalen lights. These bizarre light phenomena have been seen in Norway’s Hessdalen valley since at least the 1940’s. Over the ensuing […]
On 2nd March 2004, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft along with its robotic lander called Philae launched from Earth with the stated mission of successfully landing on the surface of Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko (named […]
Thousands of UFO sightings are reported each year across Europe’s skies, but since Britain’s UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) shut down its UFO desk in 2009, France has become the continent’s only country still running […]
The tardigrade may be one of the smallest creatures on Earth (0.3 to 0.5 mm), but it also happens to be one of the most durable and can live in both boiling and freezing conditions, […]
After almost 60 years of diligently recording reports of UFOs and flying saucers, Britain’s UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) eventually decided to shut down its UFO desk and hotline in 2009, concluding that the £44,000 […]
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