Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

Aliens exist – they just haven't visited Earth, a NASA veteran has claimed. Dr Gentry Lee has worked at the US space agency since 1968, when he first got involved with the Viking mission to Mars. He ...

“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have identified just under 50 rocky worlds most likely to be habitable out of ...

We might have had it wrong this whole time.

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers ...

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which ...

A new method to recognise the chemical properties of living things could help us detect alien life even if it functions differently from life on Earth. When searching for alien life, scientists ...

As the number of exoplanets we've discovered increases, the question about life existing somewhere other than the Earth ...

I doubt it. Galactical distances are enormous. There may be life forms in many places in the universe but most likely, they are living autonomous existences rather than under surveillance by aliens.