Humans are finally building the technology that could tell us where to look, when to look, and what signs to watch for. What might we find? Why does it matter? There’s a space-age joke about a man who ...

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"Alien: Earth" follows a group of soldiers as a ship carrying a Xenomorph crash-lands on Earth. The FX TV series is set in the same universe as the "Alien" movies. Here's when "Alien: Earth" takes ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a ‘super-Earth’ less than 20 light-years away, which could potentially harbor extraterrestrial life. This exoplanet, six times larger than our ...

Some of the world's leading experts have now revealed what noises life beyond Earth might really make - and they say Steven ...

Contacting extraterrestrial life was a mission that was taken seriously by astronomers and the scientific community. A new investigation found that we could calculate the distance to the nearest alien ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995, the very ...

NASA ’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system ...

The conditions favouring the rise of advanced aliens are much rarer than previously thought, according to a new study, which suggests the nearest planet hosting extraterrestrial civilisation could be ...

[Editor’s note: This piece contains spoilers for Alien: Earth.] The first season of Noah Hawley’s latest show used Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien as its main template, right down to the analog ...