Astronomers have been trying to detect atmospheres on planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, but bursts of radiation from the star make ...

It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the ...

Scientists are revolutionizing the search for extraterrestrial life by challenging our somewhat Earth-centric assumptions ...

Astronomer Carl Sagan's work is key to two movies in theaters: Pixar's "Elio" and Mike Flanagan's "The Life of Chuck." ...

Breakthrough Listen will scan the the skies with the aid of the MeerKAT Telescope. They are targeting a million nearby stars.

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright scepticism. Recently, scientists claimed the “strongest evidence” of ...

The search for extraterrestrial life is mobilizing unprecedented technological resources. Next-generation telescopes, like ...

As NASA rolls out more powerful telescopes in the future, scientists will need a way to determine where to point them. A new ...

NASA's discoveries reveal water's prevalence beyond Earth, from subsurface oceans on moons to vapor in exoplanet atmospheres.

How would we communicate with extraterrestrial life forms? Scientists are investigating how we can prepare for contact with ...

An artist has created an alien based on the views of 1,000 British kids, who imagined extra-terrestrials to have arms and ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright scepticism. Recently, scientists claimed the “strongest evidence” of ...