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China’s 'alien' signal almost certainly came from humans, project researcher says
By Ben Turner last updated
Despite the false alarm, SETI researchers are still pretty sure we’re not alone in the universe.

China says it may have received signals from aliens
By Ben Turner published
The signals were detected in narrow-band radio frequencies, which typically only come from artificial sources.

NASA joins hunt for UFOs
By Ben Turner published
NASA says they will start studying the objects as soon as early fall

The aliens are all hanging out on Dyson spheres circling white dwarfs, physicist argues
By Paul Sutter published
If aliens exist, they do exist, they might be hanging out on Dyson spheres circling the husks of sunlike stars called white dwarfs.

4 hostile alien civilizations may lurk in the Milky Way, a new study suggests
By Brandon Specktor published
New research calculates the odds that humans will contact a 'malicious' alien civilization that wants to invade our planet. Don't worry, the chances are incredibly small.

Alien stone in Egyptian desert came from rare supernova, scientists say
By Ben Turner published
The rock likely formed from the merging of dust with the remnants of the two stars involved in the explosion.

Famous 'alien' Wow! signal may have come from distant, sunlike star
By Adam Mann published
An astronomer proposes that the sun-like star 2MASS 19281982-2640123 is the origin of the Wow! Signal

Footage of bizarre metallic UFO shown by Pentagon officials at historic hearing
By Ben Turner published
Pentagon officials speaking at the first public hearing on UFOs since the 1960s have shown previously classified footage of an unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP).
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