Imagine a planet orbiting the largest known star, Stevenson 218. This video explores the tantalizing scientific possibility ...

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Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, ...

A new SETI methodology focuses on detecting the "spillover" from directed interstellar communications, mirroring how we communicate with our own spacecraft, rather than relying on broad, speculative ...

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 ...

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

Science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke once said, “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” And perhaps that fear is what ...

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

Aliens on Earth? Ocean life discovery could offer clues to life on other planets Chemosynthetic life communities in the Northwest Pacific could offer glimpse of what life might look like on other ...

"The universe is a pretty big place. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space," goes a line from the 1997 film "Contact." In the movie, Jodie Foster plays Dr. Ellie Arroway, a radio ...

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of ...

The majority of Americans believe there there is extraterrestrial life. Aliens might marvel at earth's natural beauty but wonder why we are not protecting it.