Movies like "Disclosure Day" and "Project Hail Mary" renew our fascination with extraterrestrials and the idea that humankind is not alone in the universe.

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers ...

Out of the 6,000 known exoplanets, it's these rocky worlds that are most worthy of attention in the search for life beyond our planet.

The new film probes the possibility of alien life – here's how the science of Project Hail Mary stacks up.

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...

A documentary filmmaker sparked a discussion of advanced Martian civilizations after sharing footage that appeared to depict ...

Glasgow Clyde College is preparing to make history by broadcasting a lecture into outer space as part of a new course ...

In a series of experiments at Johns Hopkins University, Lily Zhao fired tiny samples of a microorganism with a room-sized gas ...

Performance artist Marina Abramović explains what inspired her to be a major feature of the new Balloon Museum in New York.

For four decades, many SETI experiments have focused on finding sharp spikes in frequency but the new study says signals may not stay narrow as they travel away from their home system.

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...

After looking at the rate of decay of amino acids under cosmic radiation, NASA discovered that ice can protect biosignatures for up to 50 million years.