Scientists may have just taken one of the biggest steps yet in the search for life beyond Earth. Meet K2 18 b, a distant ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...

After more than five years of roaming the desolate and dusty landscapes of the Martian surface, NASA’s Perseverance rover has come across some of the most intriguing evidence yet of ancient microbial ...

The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early ...

Steven Spielberg has shut down conspiracy theories that his new UFO blockbuster Disclosure Day was designed to prepare the public for the revelation of extraterrestrial life. For decades, one of the ...

June 3, 2026, Mountain View, CA — Scientists at the SETI Institute searched for technological signals from 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object observed in our Solar System. Using the Allen ...

NASA's hunt for alien life may be undermined by its own instruments, according to a group of leading astrobiologists who warn that current tools and mission designs are likely missing subtle, but ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

Thomas Mulligan examines the scientific challenge of defining and searching for non-Earth-like alien life forms that may not rely on carbon, water, or DNA. Trump turns 80 with a showstopping spectacle ...

Alien life may be hiding much closer to home than science fiction would have us believe, according to a particle physicist and dark matter researcher Dr Sarah Alam Malik, who argues that Saturn's ...