A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine before it. What will it find next? When you purchase through links on our site ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Are aliens real? A Nature Astronomy study reveals 87% of experts believe life exists. Explore how 3I/ATLAS and AI are ...

We’ve likely had at least one close encounter of the 3I kind before. Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims that not only does 3I/ATLAS potentially have alien origins, but that this wouldn’t be the first ...

A new study presented at the 2025 EPSC/DPS Joint Meeting proposes that the rarity of specific geological and atmospheric conditions necessary for technologically advanced life significantly limits the ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial civilisations. People around th.

Technosignatures are theoretical signs of technologically advanced alien civilizations, but so far, none of those civilizations have phoned home. Researchers from the Search for ExtraTerrestrial ...

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 ...

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 ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...