A New Study Suggests Aliens Aren’t Little Green Men. They’re Purple People Eaters.

Some exoplanets, especially those orbiting cooler red dwarfs, might host purple plant life rather than the green-hue vegetation found on Earth. A new study from Cornell University discovered that a ... Read More

Scientists Turn to Venus in the Search for Alien Life

Similar to Earth but incapable of sustaining life. Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing volcanoes, and puffy clouds of sulfuric acid, uninhabitable Venus offers vital ... Read More

Why alien life might look purple

Instead of using chlorophyll, the green organelle that most plants have today used for photosynthesis, purple bacteria uses bacteriochlorophyll and carotenoids, which allows them to perform ... Read More

SETI Scientist Says Announcement of Alien Life Could Be Imminent

Webby Awards One of the world's foremost experts in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) believes that with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, humans are closer to discovering ... Read More

If Alien Life Is Found, How Should Scientists Break the News?

At a recent workshop, researchers and journalists debated how to announce a potential discovery of extraterrestrial life ... Read More

The Guy In Charge of Searching for Alien Tech Says It Doesn’t Exist. Yet.

NASA-led research missions to view planets beyond our Solar System have yielded thousands of unseen planets. Diamond believes there are billions more. “So indeed, the statistical probability that we ... Read More

The Tantalizing, Lonely Search for Alien Life

Green is drawn to aliens because they represent the point at which science and ... unrecognizable to us as life. Surprisingly, a pretty big question amongst scientists searching for life on ... Read More

Scientists find way to spot alien life in tiny ice grains from moons

Scientists looking for alien life have ... in the peer-reviewed academic journal Science Advances. A cold new discovery: Finding life on alien moons While the discovery of life on Mars has been ... Read More

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Apr. 22, 2024 — Based on radio telescope data and models of black hole physics, a team has used neural networks to reconstruct a 3D image that shows how explosive ... New Butterfly Species ... Read More

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New Beta-Decay Measurements in Mirror Nuclei Pin Down the Weak Nuclear Force Apr. 19, 2024 — Scientists have gained insights into the weak nuclear force from new, more sensitive studies of the ... Read More

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