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When Nikku Madhusudhan, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, addressed his audience during a live-streamed presentation about his possible detection of life on another planet, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope detected a possible sign of alien life on a distant planet. Alien life has still not been confirmed through science or through studying UFOs (or UAPs). NASA's ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien ...

Kepler-452b, a super-Earth orbiting a sun-like star just 1,400 light-years away, has emerged as a prime candidate for harboring alien life. Despite high hopes and predictions that we could discover ...

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An immense water world, right in our cosmic backyard, could be teeming with alien life. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has found a pair of gases in a distant alien world's ...

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Scientists had a mixed response to the announcement of biosignatures spotted on an alien exoplanet. A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around ...

Scientists say there's a one in three chance we're alone in the universe – and will never make contact with aliens. In a new study, Dr Veres Antal, associate professor of mathematics at the Hungarian ...

US President Donald Trump may publicly acknowledge the existence of extraterrestrial life, according to filmmaker Dan Farah, the director behind the newly released documentary “The Age of Disclosure.” ...