Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

A review of 'Project Hail Mary' with Ryan Gosling back on a mission to space, but this time alone and on a mission to save humanity from impending doom.

Being able to spot the Earth, let alone any signs of life on our planet, would require an enormous telescope from 66 million ...

Stellar plasma can smear alien radio signals before they escape their star system, making them harder for astronomers to detect.

Aliens exist - they just haven't visited Earth, NASA veteran Dr Gentry Lee has claimed.

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

Scientists identify exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, a possible Earth-size world orbiting a Sun-like star 146 light-years away ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher for the Northern ...

A decade ago, Ridley Scott’s The Martian was released. With a script by ...

Now that debates have cooled down on the series, it's time to dive back into the impressive experience.

You don't need a rocket ship to visit another world. Right here on planet Earth, there are bizarre landscapes that defy expectations. They're real places you could visit with nothing more than a plane ...