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

Sometimes you only need one of these big guys to come your way,” observed Julián Alvarado-Gómez of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam. These comments evoke the significance of the recent ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

The District of Arizona charged 160 individuals with immigration offenses, including illegal re-entry, initial entry, and ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

Looking ahead, the comet will pass roughly 33 million miles from Jupiter in March 2026. Loeb noted the scientific value: monitoring 3I/ATLAS with the Juno spacecraft could reveal unusual activity, ...

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

A legendary signal from deep space, once dismissed by some as statistical noise, has just become even more mysterious.

“Hollywood has preconditioned us to expect one of two types of alien contact, either a hostile invasion force or a benevolent ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.

Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had ...