Even with modest assumptions, the Drake Equation often suggests the galaxy should be chock full of extraterrestrial neighbors ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic organisms don’t require oxygen to grow. “They’d be adapted to a very different ...

Recently, in a “wild” new spin on the theory, known as directed panspermia, it’s been suggested that “aliens sent microbes or ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we might have a chance at detecting their ...

We're just weeks away from this interstellar visitor reaching its brightest in Earth's night skies. Will we see it?

Astronomers are also gaining the capacity to probe the atmospheres of distant planets for biosignatures. (Alien astronomers looking at Earth ... Technosignatures represent the thrilling new face of ...