Within the lifetimes of today’s teenagers, some of the world’s most respected researchers now say the discovery of alien life ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Scientists who once rolled their eyes at flying saucer stories are now treating strange things in the sky as a serious research problem, not a punchline. Across government, academia and private ...

Whether or not we're alone in the universe is one of the biggest questions in science. A recent study, led by astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan at the University of Cambridge, suggests the answer might ...

A study suggesting the exoplanet K2-18b shows potential signs of alien life has been met with skepticism from the scientific community. Here’s the truth about what the James Webb Space Telescope saw.

Tech mogul Elon Musk has weighed in on UFO sightings, asserting that neither he nor SpaceX has encountered any evidence of alien visitors. He suggests ...

The Pentagon's latest report on UFOs has revealed hundreds of new reports of unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomena but no indications suggesting an extraterrestrial origin. The review includes ...

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They’re over the moon about the discovery. Scientists have discovered fresh signs that Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, could potentially house alien life deep within its subterranean seas, per a ...

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our ...

'Strongest evidence yet' of alien life discovered on distant planet Scientists have detected what may be the strongest evidence of alien life yet on a planet orbiting a star 120 light-years from Earth ...