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Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a government website depicts non-citizens as extraterrestrials.

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Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

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The US has recovered four distinct species of extraterrestrial life from crashed UFOs, a former CIA-funded government researcher sensationally claimed this week. Dr. Hal Puthoff, former Advanced ...

When Neil deGrasse Tyson was 9 years old, he visited the Hayden Planetarium for the first time. Growing up gazing into light pollution in the Bronx, he had no idea there were that many stars. “I was ...