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Searching for an ET? Scientists Say Look for Signs of Aliens Mining Asteroids

After 50 years of searching the heavens with radio telescopes to try to contact alien life, so far the attempts of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) scientists seem to have fallen on deaf ears. So is there another way to try to find aliens in our galactic neighborhood? Some scientists suggest looking for...

Military Expert: The World Could Never Survive a Real 'Battle: Los Angeles'

A giant spaceship from another world arrives during the day and positions itself above the White House in Washington, while more ships do the same over other major cities around the world. Then, without warning, all hell breaks loose, and the ships begin using devastating weapons and power to destroy everything around...

Hey ET, Are You Out There? Kepler Helps SETI Tune In

The needle-in-a-haystack search for extraterrestrial signals has narrowed a bit, thanks to NASA's Kepler spacecraft. Scientists announced that, of the 1,235 candidate planets discovered by Kepler, 54 of them were in what's known as the Goldilocks zone, a region close enough to its home sun where a planet may harbor...

Earthling Scientists Work on Plan to Call ETs

It's been nearly 40 years since humans first tried contacting extraterrestrials with radio telescope technology, and as far as we know, nobody has said "hello" back to us. If earthlings want to reach out and touch someone, we might have to change channels to connect with an intelligence that actually knows what we're...

Astronomers Worldwide Forge New Rules for ET Engagement

(Oct. 8) -- Is alien disclosure just around the corner? I can't say for sure, but lately there's been a lot of news that, if looked at collectively, could be interpreted as pointing in that direction. It seems as if everyone from the Vatican to the military to scientists conducting the Search for Extraterrestrial...

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