In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...

According to a new scientific hypothesis, alien civilisations may only become detectable at the moment of their collapse.

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

Looking ahead, the comet will pass roughly 33 million miles from Jupiter in March 2026. Loeb noted the scientific value: monitoring 3I/ATLAS with the Juno spacecraft could reveal unusual activity, ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

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

Astronomers warn humanity’s first alien detection may shock and surprise. Signals may not be friendly greetings but extreme and unmistakable. New research suggests initial contact could come from ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

As you're reading this, humanity is closer than it has ever been to confirming the existence of life in various forms on other planets. And I'm not talking here about Mars, the most likely suspect to ...