Where does this obsession with alien life come from? Is it sheer terror of being truly alone in the cosmos, in an atomized, existentially senseless world?
Area 51 is reportedly just another government facility sitting ominously in the middle of the Nevada desert, home to the usual government weirdness like military tests and secretive operations with code names like the Watertown Project and Skunk Works. How did it come to be associated with aliens?
He knew more about the universe than most of us. Basically, we should take whatever Hawking believed with a sense of weight. Even when he suggested that aliens would kill us.
When the news of Blink-182's second falling apart, due to Tom DeLonge's lack of interest, started to spread in 2015, people nodded in an understanding manner. However, in 2016, he told Mic that he primarily broke from Blink-182 to form a new company that would focus on UFOs.
Turns out, scientists don't even have to go into outer space to search for extraterrestrial life. Sometimes outer space just comes to them in the form of meteorites.
For that reason, astrobiologists spend most of their time examining the most extreme environments here on Earth in an effort to extrapolate potential habitats in the universe beyond. One such environment was recently uncovered in a new study of a substance known as "flammable ice".
In our relatively short occupation of Planet Earth, humanity has made spectacular technological leaps forward. Will 2020 be the year when we, at long last, make contact with an alien organism? No, probably not. Here's why.
Odiferous underarms, moldy cheese feet, rancid roadkill and acrid eggs -- there's a lot of stank out there, and generally we want nothing to do with it. But now scientists have identified one of the stinkiest molecules of all as a sign of potential alien life.
For a decent chunk of the population, the Bible is the go-to, end-all resource for information about, well, everything. But what do we do when we have more complex questions? Questions like, "Are aliens out there somewhere?" and "Are they going to heaven?" What does the Bible say about aliens?
The History Channel's smash hit program Ancient Aliens has either been around for roughly a decade, or, alternatively, was created eons ago by visitors from another world, if you subscribe to the ancient aliens theory of Ancient Aliens. Here's what archaeologists really think of Ancient Aliens.
Alien evidence doesn't just come from crackpot conspiracy theorists. There are many mysteries so beyond explanation, the only reasonable conclusion is "aliens."
Typically, alien abductees disappear into obscurity, but some claims are so outlandish and over-the-top, that disappearing into obscurity was not an option.