For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...

Within the lifetimes of today’s teenagers, some of the world’s most respected researchers now say the discovery of alien life ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...

An illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18b might look like based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. K2-18b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the ...

In this scenario, our first contact with aliens would be tragic. We should look for "loud shouts in the night".

He cited the astronomical gaffe in January, when The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., announced the discovery of an ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Written by Steve Perry and published by Bantam Spectra on September 1, 1992. The novel is approximately 278 pages and is the first in the trilogy. Wilks and Billie go on an expedition to a ...