The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

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

Water may not be essential to support life, and an entirely different type of liquid could do the same in alien worlds, a new study claims. Until now, water has been considered a requirement for life ...

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

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

Planets orbiting close to red dwarf stars risk getting hit by violent flares.Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Player (STScI) (Inside Science) — Shifting, slipping and colliding tectonic plates played an ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we might have a chance at detecting their ...

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 ...

Alien-hunting astronomers in China and the US say they discovered a mysterious radio signal from the direction of an Earthlike planet. The narrowband signal – picked up by the world’s largest radio ...