NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected a carbon-rich atmosphere on a tiny world orbiting a dead, rapidly spinning ...

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth could thus be overlooking prime evidence of alien intelligence.

NASA's new alien-hunting telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), will be serviceable out in space (and it will ...

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed a distant planet located 40,000 light-years away using microlensing for the first time.

The race to compile a sort of catalogue of the planets orbiting distant Suns is intensifying, with the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, for instance, set to spot tens of thousands of such ...

The nature of space, time and the evolution of life on Earth mean it’s unlikely extraterrestrial life has visited our home ...

With over decades of films and convincing radio plays, aliens have captivated our imaginations and our worst fears. They’ve ...

In fact, polls in Australia, the US and elsewhere indicate around a third of the public believes aliens are here. However, while what we know about the universe suggests aliens may exist, there are ...