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NASA Has Announcement, Twitter Has Snarky Jokes

By David KnowlesDec 1st 2010 – 1:46PM

(Dec. 1) -- On Thursday, researchers at NASA plan to reveal a major discovery having to do with the search for extraterrestrial life. That news has set the Internet aflame with speculation over just what the space agency has found. At 2 p.m. EDT, the NASA team will make its findings public at a news conference that Surge...

Some Say Moon Photos Show Signs of Alien Life

By Lee SpeigelNov 1st 2010 – 6:02PM
Getty Images

Getty Images

(Nov. 1) -- We're all familiar with the phrase "the man in the moon," the idea that the full moon looks like a human face. But what about this far-out notion: Could there be aliens on the moon watching humankind from a relatively close distance? That's a meaty question that brings out emotional responses from anyone you...

Mazlan Othman Not Earth's Alien Ambassador After All

By David KnowlesSep 27th 2010 – 4:05PM

(Sept. 27) -- Call it one small misstep for mankind. Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Othman has officially denied media reports that she was selected by the United Nations to represent earthlings in their future dealings with aliens. "It sounds really cool," Othman told The Guardian, "but I have to deny it." The...

2010: A Space Odyssey to Find Earth-Like Planets

By Lee SpeigelAug 2nd 2010 – 8:05AM
NASA

NASA

(Aug. 2) -- Space, the final frontier. This is the voyage of the spacecraft Kepler. Its four-year mission is to seek out new worlds, boldly going where no one has gone before -- and early analysis shows it may have found many cousins to our home planet. Kepler, NASA's deep-space probe, has located hundreds of objects...

Background on extraterrestrial intelligence

Extraterrestrial life (from the Latin words: extra ["beyond", or "not of"] and‎ ["of or belonging to Earth"]) is defined as life that does not originate from Earth.

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