NASA's Kepler space telescope discovered a planet named Kepler-22b within the habitable zone of a distant star, sparking hopes of finding Earth-like planets with liquid oceans and potential life.
Meanwhile, intriguing footage from the Space Shuttle Discovery mission in 1991 showed unidentified glowing objects and flashing lights surrounding the spacecraft, with one astronaut claiming they were being tracked by an alien spacecraft.
Werner Von Braun, the father of rocket science, whose achievements enabled the Apollo moon landing, was believed by some to have received extraterrestrial guidance for his groundbreaking visions of space travel.
Mysterious lights and a possible three-mile-tall pyramid on the dwarf planet Ceres further fueled speculations about ancient extraterrestrial wars and their impact on Earth.
Recent discoveries of methane cycles on Mars have sparked debates about the possibility of present-day Martian life.
The relentless pursuit to unravel the existence of extraterrestrial life captivates the minds of both scientists and „alien hunters“, drawing them closer to the ultimate quest of uncovering aliens.