What do you think of when it comes to extraterrestrial life? Most popular sci-fi books and TV shows suggest humanoid beings could live on other planets. But when astronomers are searching for ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

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 ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

For decades, scientists have tried to turn the question of alien life from late-night speculation into something you can ...

The first sign of possible extraterrestrials detected in the cosmos didn't come in the form of little green aliens flying around in saucer-shaped spacecraft. In fact, the life that could be – emphasis ...

The scientists used data from the James Webb Space Telescope, which was trained on the exoplanet K2-18b - Amanda Smith An ocean world teeming with alien life may exist 124 light years away from Earth, ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was secured on top of the Ariane 5 rocket that launched it into space from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana in December 2021 Photo by M. Pedoussaut/ESA/NASA What ...

What do you think of when it comes to extra terrestrial life? Most popular sci-fi books and TV shows suggest humanoid beings could live on other planets. But when astronomers are searching for ...