In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive ...

Tiny delays in pulsar signals measured by SETI scientists could aid the search for gravitational waves and extraterrestrial life.

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Within the next 20 years, human beings could discover life on other planets. It was this startling prediction—and the subsequent realization that kids sitting in elementary school classrooms today ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar fingerprints of biology, researchers are training algorithms to spot the deeper ...

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential for life as we know it can form readily in space. This discovery, ...

When it comes to the search for extraterrestrial life, research focuses on the so-called habitable zone of stars. This may ...

Recent observations suggest that scientists have identified potential microbial fingerprints in the atmospheres of other planets, raising intriguing questions about the possibility of alien life ...

A former Bank of England analyst warns that confirming alien life could trigger financial chaos, urging authorities to prepare for an unprecedented shock.