extraterrestrials

Life beyond Earth

Extraterrestrials are beings from beyond Earth—life forms originating on other planets or in outer space.

The word appears most often in discussions of whether such life exists and whether it has visited Earth: Do you believe in extraterrestrials?

As an adjective, extraterrestrial describes anything originating outside Earth: extraterrestrial intelligence, extraterrestrial life.

fringe

UFO

Unidentified aerial craft

conspiracy · hoaxes · pseudoscience · cryptozoology · ufology · Area 51 · cover-up · skepticism · believers · sightings

fiction

aliens

Beings from other worlds

ray gun · Martians · xenomorph · Vulcan · Klingon · E.T. · close encounters · first contact · intergalactic · humanoid

scientific

astrobiology

Study of cosmic organisms

biosignatures · Fermi paradox · habitable zone · microbial life · radio signals · Goldilocks zone · Europa · Kepler · technosignatures · panspermia

Categories
Opposites
planetary origin

extraterrestrialsearthlings

Inhabitants of our planet

terrestrials · humans · humanity · Homo sapiens · world

Phrases
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