Vatican: It’s OK for Catholics to Believe in Aliens

VATICAN CITY — There could be alien life forms and believing they exist isn’t contradictory to having faith in God, the top astronomer at the Vatican said in an interview published Tuesday.
In the Vatican newspaper piece, titled “The Extraterrestrial Is My Brother,” the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes said the expansiveness of the universe [...]

Atomic Extremeophiles Thrive Where the Life-Giving Energy of the Sun Never Reaches

“Life finds a way.”
Thanks to a research time involving Princeton, Indiana University, and others, that isn’t just a sappy Disney quote – it’s an incredible fact.  They found extremophile bacteria buried over two miles into solid rock, where the life-giving energy of the sun never reaches – the energy every other species on Earth depends [...]

Planet-hunters set for big bounty

 
Rocky planets, possibly with conditions suitable for life, may be more common than previously thought in our galaxy, a study has found. New evidence suggests more than half the Sun-like stars in the Milky Way could have similar planetary systems.
There may also be hundreds of undiscovered worlds in outer parts of our Solar [...]

Scientists Urge Broadening Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Scientists from around the world are discussing how to improve the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program after 50 years of “The Great Silence” at The Sound of Silence conference, being held at Arizona State University
“Have we been looking in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the wrong way?” ASU astrophysicist Paul Davies [...]

Ping from space? We hear you!

KTVU-TV, Channel 2 in San Francisco Bay area, reported yesterday: “Across the globe, researchers searching for signs of life in space were abuzz this week with word that a mystery signal has been picked up by a giant radio-telescope in Puerto Rico. Now the dilemma is — how do you answer it? Dan Wertheimer of [...]

Support NASA funding!

 
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The U.S. Senate is about to vote on the NASA funding for next year. They may also consider an amendment by Senators Mikulski and Hutchison adding $1 billion to [...]

Scientists found life on Mars back in the 70s

 
The soil on Mars may indeed be teeming with microbes, according to a new interpretation of data first collected more than 30 years ago.

 

The search for life on Mars appeared to hit a dead end in 1976 when Viking landers touched down on the red planet and failed to detect biological activity.
There was another flurry [...]

Mainstream Scientist Believes in Extraterrestrials

Dr. Michio Kaku (born in the United States) is a Japanese American theoretical physicist, tenured professor, and co-founder of string field theory, a branch of super-string theory.
While it is the belief by many that mainstream scientists reject any notions of extraterrestrial civilizations or aliens, Kaku is very unique. Not only does he believe in ETs, [...]

A signal from above

  
After 30 years, an unexplained radio emission falls off astronomy’s radar
 
On August 15, 1977, a radio telescope at Ohio State University pointed skyward picked up an unusual signal. The telescope was searching the radio wave spectrum as part of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, program. Four days later, a volunteer with SETI, Professor [...]

2002 SEALED AFFIDAVIT OF WALTER G. HAUT – released in 2007

 
DATE:  December 26, 2002

WITNESS:  Chris Xxxxxx

NOTARY:  Beverlee Morgan

(1)  My name is Walter G. Haut

(2)  I was born on June 2, 1922

(3)  My address is 1405 W. 7th Street, Roswell, NM 88203

(4)  I am retired.

(5)  In July, 1947, I was stationed at the Roswell Army Air Base in Roswell, New Mexico, serving as the base Public [...]