Sentences with phrase «signs of alien»

This rather shocking belief — that we will find signs of alien life within 20 years — stems back to the massive success of the Kepler space telescope.

Norton says future missions to find Earth - like planets in Earth - like orbits will be when the real search for signs of alien life will begin.

Was it a family of comets or, more intriguingly, was it signs of an alien civilization?

The mystery object discovered earlier this year traveling through our solar system is showing no signs of any alien life, despite plenty of efforts to look and listen for a signal.

Earlier this year, a scan of 100,000 galaxies showed no signs of alien mega-civilizations, dashing the hopes of those longing for a close encounter of the extra-terrestrial kind.

Scientists looking for signs of alien life from the mystery object passing through our Solar system say they've found nothing «so far».

Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi reportedly quipped to fellow physicists in 1950, when discussing why we haven't seen any signs of alien civilisations if, as many believe, our galaxy is teeming with life.

Scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet on 5 August via a nail - bitingly intricate, autonomous procedure, NASA's Curiosity rover will undertake an unprecedented two - year hunt for signs of alien life.

The Allen Telescope Array, however, named for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who donated seed money for the project, will allow SETI astronomers to survey the skies for signs of alien intelligence 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

TAKING a great picture of yourself is never easy — even if you're a pioneering robot sophisticated enough to explore Mars for signs of alien life.

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has looked for many different signs of alien life, from radio broadcasts to laser flashes, without success.

That makes the system, around a star called TRAPPIST - 1, a prime target in the search for signs of alien life.

Cluster computing is not a new idea, having found success on desktop computers with projects like SETI@home, which uses idle PCs to search for signs of alien life.

To search for signs of alien life, we may have to look into Earth's past.

With an 85 - foot radio telescope in Green Bank, W.Va., he looks at two sunlike stars for signs of alien technology.

And it would allow astronomers to closely examine dozens of potentially Earth - like exoplanets for signs of alien life.

Some look to the heavens for signs of alien life, but geoscientist Onstott and his colleagues probe deep below ground instead, venturing into extreme environments on our planet to understand how life might begin, and thrive, on other planets.

The first sign of aliens might not be microbes or radio signals but fossilised imprints or excrement left on the solid surfaces of Mars or Titan

The subsequent fallout and nuclear winter would turn the planet's atmosphere hazy, which we could detect, but some planets are very cloudy anyway so this wouldn't be a definitive sign of alien apocalypse.

Besides being simply a search for signs of aliens, Breakthrough Listen's efforts could also narrow down the possibilities for «Oumuamua's composition by looking for signs of water vapor sublimating from any sun - warmed ice lurking beneath the object's red, desiccated surface.

Researchers with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) looked for radio signals coming from the star's galaxy (which could be a sign of alien life) but failed to find any.

Not exact matches

James Franco plays the captain of the ship, who is under the weather as he goes into cryosleep (never a good sign in an «Alien» movie).

«When you place animals in an alien environment, they show signs of stress.

In 1986, a Democratic Congress passed and the Republican president signed into law the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which attempted to close the back door of illegal immigration by, among other measures, imposing sanctions on employers for hiring unauthorized aliens.

Some evangelical prayer meetings look «quite a lot like the Pietist conventicals»; the literature on the two «resemble» and «echo» each other; one «comes to mind» when one deals with the other; the ideas of one «would not be alien» to the other; and both «insisted on» similar themes about the warmed heart and signs of regeneration.

Armed not with weapons but with telescopes and particle accelerators, and speaking by the signs and symbols of recondite mathematics, it has brought us to many strange shores and shown us alien and fantastic landscapes.

Disheartened by the amount of support Griffin had received from the community, I considered showing up at the courthouse with a sign that included Exodus 22:21, «Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt» — mainly because June prides herself on being a strict biblical literalist.

Someone could have just as easily told you that all these things were signs of being abducted by aliens, and how could you tell that they weren't being sincere?

The giants swing their triple arms or poise, frozen like hazmat signs, on every hill: alien prayer wheels of unending noise or monuments to birds and bats they kill; Shivas, whose dance preserves us and destroys a landscape that no longer can stand still.

However eccentric he was, and whatever one's view of the wisdom of such «small» missions (Beagle 2 cost a mere # 66m, compared with the $ 1.6 bn which Nasa spent on its Mars Reconnaissance Rover), Pillinger's enthusiasm to find out if there is evidence of alien life is a sign of the intellectual curiosity that lies at the heart of all good science.

They need a petition signed by 2 % of the population of the district, including children and aliens.

In the letter signed by former Caretaker, Committee Chairman in Ibarapa Central Local Government, Hon. Akinyemi Akinlabi; former Chairman in Ibarapa East, Hon. Adeloore Atanda and former Caretaker Committee Chairman in Ibarapa North Hon. Tunji Omolewu on behalf of others, a copy of which was obtained by DAILY POST on Tuesday, the aspirants described the action as alien to «the constitution of the party and that of Nigeria.»

With scans for alien radio signals drawing a blank, three teams are now searching for signs of extraterrestrial engineering, as Stephen Battersby reports

This year DISCOVER honors David Charbonneau, a Harvard University astronomer whose research could soon lead to an equally stunning revelation: By studying alien worlds, he may find the first direct evidence of life beyond Earth, a sign that our living planet is — yet again — one among many.

«If that's correct, there should be some signs of dead alien civilisations all over the place,» says Duncan Forgan of the University of St Andrews, UK.

Although I hate to pour cold water on those looking for signs of large - scale alien technology (6 April, p 42),...

The next step will be to analyze the core for microbes and other signs of life, which, if found, will add a second member to this alien landscape in the deep.

I wonder whether the solution to the Fermi paradox — that if there are intelligent aliens, why are there no signs of them — might be that a civilisation capable of colonising the stars may consider it, on the whole, wiser not to do so (5 February, p 40).

Soon the only sign of the mooring was a small, yellow buoy, looking alien in the icy - blue fjord.

This month I seriously propose that we begin the process of repositioning the sun and other nearby stars in order to send signals to aliens, and that we begin the search for signs that aliens might have done the same for our benefit.

Nevertheless, this technique is an extremely promising one for detecting potential signs of life on alien worlds.

Since then, he has dedicated his career to trying to find a sign — any sign — that can be explained only by the existence of technologically advanced alien life.

Using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, scientists with the Breakthrough Listen initiative — a massive project dedicated to finding signs of intelligent alien life — recorded 15 repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) on August 26.

The study of alien worlds is entering its next phase as astronomers amass the best planets outside our Solar System to look for signs of life.

Nov. 2nd Sarah Scoles, author of Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, will present A History of False Alien Positives followed by a book - signing event

An international team of scientists from the SETI Institute, the private organization that is searching for signs of extraterrestrial life, revealed that it received mysterious signal spikes last year that could have possibly come from an alien civilization.

They were searching signs of intelligence — meaning aliens.

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The body has been delivered to her by an equally mysterious alien in male form who rides around the Scottish highlands on a motorcycle, cleaning up messes after the abductions but also keeping an eye on his comely partner for any signs of faithlessness to their cruel agenda.