Read more extraterrestrial life stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/4793/extraterrestrial-life.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:00:54 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73765/et-phone-rome-vatican-holds-alien-conference.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDoes intelligent life exist elsewhere in the universe and if so, is it Christian? Those and other weighty questions are up for discussion this week at a Vatican conference on astrobiology. Religious leaders and a range of scientists—including some non-Catholics—have been called in to discuss the possibility of...http://www.newser.com/story/73765/et-phone-rome-vatican-holds-alien-conference.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 2:35:19 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/69520/googles-new-ufo-mystery-solved.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGoogle has apparently been abducted by aliens. The search engine sent Twitterers on an extraterrestrial mystery hunt this week after Tweeting map coordinates and posting "Google" written in crop circles as its ever-changing Internet logo. The coordinates led to the English town of Woking, which was the landing site for...http://www.newser.com/story/69520/googles-new-ufo-mystery-solved.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 16 Sep 2009 4:51:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68789/china-scientists-report-ufo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagChinese scientists have reported filming a UFO for 40 minutes during the solar eclipse in July, reports the T elegraph . Researchers from the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing said they will study the footage for a full year before they issue any conclusions. Scientists "discovered near the sun an unidentified...http://www.newser.com/story/68789/china-scientists-report-ufo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 07 Sep 2009 5:16:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66958/aussies-to-zap-text-messages-at-mystery-planet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn Australian science magazine is soliciting text messages to send to a mysterious planet more than 20 light-years away, Space.com reports. Called "Hello from Earth," the project aims to transmit 160-character missives to Gliese 581d, a so-called "Super Earth" discovered 2 years ago. "Will we get a reply? No...http://www.newser.com/story/66958/aussies-to-zap-text-messages-at-mystery-planet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 14 Aug 2009 17:55:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61774/aliens-may-be-watching-our-soaps-expert.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAliens are out there, and they may be watching Survivor, says a premier scientist searching for extraterrestrial life . “We are definitely not alone,” SETI project founder Frank Drake tells Der Spiegel . He worries about TV radio transmitters shooting human entertainment into space, greeting aliens with soap operas or "crime programs...http://www.newser.com/story/61774/aliens-may-be-watching-our-soaps-expert.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 13 Jun 2009 18:29:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57746/ufo-watchers-abuzz-over-mars-skull.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagUFO watchers are speculating online that a NASA image of a Martian landscape may show an alien skull, reports the Telegraph . "There appears to be a narrow pointed small mouth, so this creature most likely is a carnivore," noted one. An image that looked surprisingly like a skull that made...http://www.newser.com/story/57746/ufo-watchers-abuzz-over-mars-skull.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 01 May 2009 9:29:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55872/cia-unlocks-real-x-files.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFor decades, the government barely acknowledged the existence of Area 51, the mysterious military base in Nevada where it allegedly stores frozen extraterrestrials and alien spacecraft. But now, with the CIA declassifying the site’s top-secret programs, insiders are coming forward to dispel the myths, ABC News reports. If anything, “we...http://www.newser.com/story/55872/cia-unlocks-real-x-files.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 10 Apr 2009 11:56:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54085/brit-dog-walker-reported-close-encounter-of-the-alien-kind.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAnother tale from the UK's recently released military files on UFOs comes from a dog-walker, who reports encountering an extraterrestrial who spoke in a Scandinavian accent. It was classified as a "genuine call" by a Royal Air Force phone operator, reports the Telegraph . The alien, appearing in human form in...http://www.newser.com/story/54085/brit-dog-walker-reported-close-encounter-of-the-alien-kind.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 22 Mar 2009 19:00:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/50874/alien-life-inevitable-astronomer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagScientists now believe there could be as many habitable planets in the cosmos as there are stars, and that makes life’s existence elsewhere “inevitable” over billions of years, says one. “It is sort of like running an experiment in your refrigerator—turn it off and something will grow in there,...http://www.newser.com/story/50874/alien-life-inevitable-astronomer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 15 Feb 2009 12:21:07 CST