Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability An ...

What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?

Every known living thing on Earth needs water. The life-giving liquid makes up around 60 percent of each human’s body weight, regulating temperature, transporting nutrients to cells and protecting ...

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 sun-eating microbes, was rel ...

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 ...

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

We might have had it wrong this whole time.

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

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.