Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year ...

As many as 200 worlds beyond our solar system discovered by astronomers may be larger than estimated, which could influence the search for extraterrestrial life. That's the theory of a team of ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

PROOF of alien life is one step closer to being found thanks to a massive earthquake-proof telescope that’s near completion ...

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes The search for alien life usually hinges on finding the ...

Obama replied “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in … what is it …?” “Area 51?” the interviewer responded. Then Obama said, “Area 51. There’s no underground facility.

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple major telescopes and planetary probes to advance this search. However, the ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Scientists may need to broaden their horizons in their search for alien life. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news ...

Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms, but that these storms were far different from those on Earth. When you ...

A new study suggests a novel approach in the long-running scientific endeavor to find intelligent life beyond Earth. Instead of casting a wide, speculative net across the cosmos, researchers from Penn ...