Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adam Glanzman/For The Washington Post via Getty Images A lot of serious scientists are searching for signs of alien life. Most of ...

Astronomers claim to have discovered the strongest signs yet of possible life on a planet 700 trillion miles away from Earth. The astronomers detected the chemical fingerprints of gases in the alien ...

What would be the ultimate solution to the energy problems of an advanced civilization? Renowned British American physicist Freeman Dyson theorized it would be a shell made up of mirrors or solar ...

If you're a fan of science-fiction programs and movies, you might have recognized a pattern. Aliens, lots of times, look like us. They might have interesting forehead wrinkles, or pointy ears, but the ...

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The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...