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Scientists have discovered an 'alien' material inside a massive crater on Earth, sparking new questions about how life may have first emerged on our planet.

On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide ...

Do aliens exist? Could Earth really be the only planet hosting intelligent life? Debates over the existence of extraterrestrials date back to the earliest Indigenous and western thought. The tools ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines a very different kind of solar system that could harbor life-forms we haven ...

The Pentagon has released another batch of ‘UFO Files’ with footage of unknown objects in the sky—here are the most common alien theories, explained. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn ...