Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

The researchers who scan the skies for radio signals from extraterrestrials are now rethinking their approach.

Lee said SETI’s paper could answer the Fermi Paradox, the idea that if the universe is billions of years old, where are all ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaving our solar system. See new photos from a European Space Agency orbiter on its way to Jupiter.

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

Scientists reveal one key way we might have missed signals from aliens - ‘Smearing’ of signals could mean that there are ...

Comets are often treated as leftovers, but sometimes the leftovers become the primary focus. That is the case with 3I/ATLAS, only the third known interstellar object seen crossing the solar system, ...

Solar winds near aliens’ homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals The SETI Institute, the nonprofit that conducts a search for extraterrestrial ...

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 ...

Sandra Hüller also stars in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s sci-fi epic based on the Andy Weir novel about a science teacher who finds an unusual ally in a mission to save two worlds.

PROJECT HAIL MARY is a science fiction thriller about an Earth astronaut who emerges from hibernation only to find his two crewmates ...

Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the "Goldilocks Zone" around a star. This is defined as the orbital band where the temperature is just right for liquid water to pool ...