For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and a well-known BBC presenter, believes scientists will make a ...

Within the lifetimes of today’s teenagers, some of the world’s most respected researchers now say the discovery of alien life ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

In this scenario, our first contact with aliens would be tragic. We should look for "loud shouts in the night".

He cited the astronomical gaffe in January, when The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., announced the discovery of an ...

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