Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

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A golf ball-size octopus found on the deep seafloor off the Galápagos Islands is an entirely new species, scientists just ...

Scientists may have discovered how extraterrestrial civilizations could actually detect and find Earth.

A new analysis of NASA's Deep Space Network finds Earth's strongest radio beams align with planetary line‑ups, boosting the chance alien civilisations could detect us and suggesting where and when we ...

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UFO investigator Jeremy Corbell discusses a leaked memo suggesting humans may be manipulated by aliens, sparking online ...

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Hydnora is one of the strangest flowering plants ever discovered, a subterranean parasite that survives entirely by draining nutrients from the roots of other plants . It spends most of its life ...