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Wes Anderson's 'Asteroid City' is a love letter to UFO culture
By Jeff Spry published
Space.com's review of director Wes Anderson's latest feature film, "Asteroid City," a heavily stylized tale of a close encounter during a high school science competition.
![NASA's Perseverance rover is looking for traces of past life on the surface of Mars.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PnMG687V8uqtoJBa9yi93g-320-80.jpg)
Viral YouTube video explains NASA's search for alien life
By Robert Lea published
A new viral video by a NASA astrobiologist explains the space agency's efforts to find out whether we are alone in the universe.
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Repeated signals from the center of the Milky Way could be aliens saying hello, new study claims
By Stephanie Pappas published
A new search for extraterrestrial life has scientists looking inward — toward the center of our galaxy.
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UFOs worth investigating despite lack of 'real evidence,' former astronaut Scott Kelly says
By Brett Tingley published
Four-time astronaut Scott Kelly spoke with Space.com about UFOs and why air and space are so 'prone to optical illusions' that lead to reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena.
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UFOs will remain mysterious without better data, NASA study team says
By Brett Tingley last updated
During the opening remarks in today's meeting of NASA's UAP study team, members stressed that the biggest roadblock standing between us and understanding unidentified phenomena is a lack of data.
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NASA's UFO task force meets today. You can watch it online with this free livestream
By Brett Tingley last updated
On Wednesday (May 31), NASA will hold a meeting of the "independent study group" the agency created to study data related to unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP. Here's how to watch it live.
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'Alien' signal beamed to Earth from Mars in SETI test
By Mike Wall published
A European Mars orbiter beamed a coded message to Earth today (May 24), kicking off a weeks-long project designed to help us prep for a real signal from E.T.
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How would we decode a message from ET? New project will give us a trial run
By Mike Wall published
A new project called 'A Sign in Space' will give scientists and laypeople around the world practice at decoding a message from intelligent aliens.
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