Curiosity, which is exploring Gale Crater, conducted a chemistry experiment on a rock sample that revealed complex carbon ...

SETI pioneer remembered: Frank Drake’s groundbreaking work, including Project Ozma and the Drake equation, legitimised the search for extraterrestrial life. Science meets culture: Drake’s ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

When you're looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, it helps to know what you're looking for and to go about it ...

Stephen Hawking's eerie alien theory might explain why we've never been contacted ...

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb says humans are not at the cosmic top table and calls for full release of UFO data, arguing that ...

According to Kepler observations, the most abundant kind of planets in the Milky Way is the super-Earths. These planets are ...

Over the last decade, since the work of a shadowy government program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification ...

Scientists identify 45 potentially habitable exoplanets, using exact data and quotes to guide future telescopes in the search for extraterrestrial life.

When astronomers turned their instruments toward 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet passing through our solar system, what they ...

For more than half a century, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been built ...