According to popular media, the search for alien life involves advanced technology, space exploration and sometimes even government conspiracies and secret programs. But according to University of ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions within the next few decades. Maggie Aderin-Pocock says she is “absolutely ...

Why 3I/ATLAS Is Being Compared to a Spaceship Engine in New XRISM Images Forget the grainy footage of 'flying saucers' or the campy sci-fi tropes of little green men from Mars; the search for ...

Could intelligent alien civilizations really exist somewhere beyond Earth? As advanced telescopes continue discovering new potentially habitable worlds every year, that possibility seems more ...

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb says humanity is on the brink of a 'major revolution' as advances in artificial intelligence and the search for alien life accelerate, telling a reporter in Athens this week ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says answering the question of alien life is inherent in all space exploration, and the odds of finding evidence at some point that suggests we’re not alone is ...