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Aliens: the science facts behind the science fictions (article).

Michael Siegel is here to look at the science facts behind the science fictions of the “Alien” and “Aliens” movies,

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Multi-Species Empires: Alien Civilisations (science video).

When reading science fiction, it’s typical to come across interstellar civilizations that are home to hundreds of happily coexisting alien

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What might real aliens look like? (science video)

In this hour-long science video, Dr. Arik Kershenbaum chats with the Event Horizon crew about what we know aliens might

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Is there an alien scout craft hiding concealed within the Solar System’s Kuiper Belt? (weird news video)

Is there an alien scout craft hiding concealed within the Solar System’s Kuiper Belt? Well, maybe. It might sound like

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Meet your alien bestie, not beastie (science documentary).

Science fiction books, films, and TV shows usually show aliens and humans living in relative harmony across the galaxy, but

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Halcyon Power Loader Model: a model-building exercise article by: GF Willmetts.

Introduction A couple years back, moving in a new bookcase into my front room, I hadn’t anticipated the whoopf! of

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Oumuamua: first alien solar-sail probe to visit the Solar System? (science video)

Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science and astrophysicist at Harvard University, explains why in his new

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Avi Loeb, Harvard Professor of Astrophysics, on why the Oumuamua visitor was an alien light-sail craft (video).

Avi Loeb, Harvard Professor of Astrophysics, on why the Oumuamua visitor was more likely than not to have been a

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Aliens that horrify (science video).

It’s Halloween time, wa-ha-ha, so what could be better than a half-hour sit-down as we consider a variety of the

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Soviet Union blundered into underwater alien base: divers died (video).
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Soviet Union blundered into underwater alien UFO base: divers died (video).

Declassified military files released from the USSR after its fall detail one of the oddest – and nastiest – UFO

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