extraterrestrial beings

Life beyond Earth

Extraterrestrial beings are life forms originating from somewhere other than Earth—aliens, in the popular imagination.

The phrase appears in scientific discussions of astrobiology and in speculation about UFOs: Do extraterrestrial beings exist?

The signal could indicate contact with extraterrestrial beings.

Often shortened to extraterrestrials or ETs.

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extremophiles · Fermi paradox · exoplanets · crop circles · first contact · phone home · warp drives · alien spacecraft · little green men · Roswell incident · SETI · Drake equation · alien abductions · grey aliens · Area 51 · bioluminescence · panspermia · exoskeleton

Opposites
planetary origin

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Inhabitants of our planet

terrestrials · humans · humanity · Homo sapiens · native species

naturalness of origin

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Machines mimicking human thought

robots · androids

Family

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