While alien hunting is often associated with tinfoil hats and flying saucers, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ...

CHINA recently upped the ante in the search for alien life in the Universe with the completion of the world’s largest telescope. The vast telescope is made up of 4,450 panels and with a width of 500m ...

Chinese scientists have proposed a space project to survey the sky through a space-borne telescope to hunt for habitable Earth-like planets outside the solar system, about 32 light-years from Earth.

THE James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first-ever exoplanet - a distant world hidden by the glare of its nearest star. The landmark discovery marks a new era for alien-hunters, according to ...

CHINA has been quietly building the world’s biggest radio telescope to search for alien life in space. Now it’s finally been turned on. Since 2011, China has been steadily working away on the world’s ...

Fast, the world’s largest radio telescope, will open to non-Chinese scientists later this year for a wide range of projects, including the search for alien civilisations. Researchers interested in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

While thousands of exoplanets - planets outside of our solar system - have been discovered, getting pictures of them still proves tricky THE James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first-ever ...

Imagine a planet twice as wide as Earth, covered in an ocean that smells like sweet cabbage. Every day, a faint red star warms this ocean world and the uncountable masses of hungry, plankton-like ...

NASA's alien-hunting Europa Clipper spacecraft took seven hours of ultraviolet observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS while both objects zoom toward Jupiter.