Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his unmade movie could have been about.

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

Nasa is attempting an unprecedented mission to rescue its ageing Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory before it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere. Using a commercial robotic spacecraft, the agency hopes to exten ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

The European-led LIFE mission aims to use spacecraft in formation to look for biosignatures.

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer them a somewhat risky buffet. There is liquid water, as well as salts, ...

The coating could be applied on future spacecraft designed to block light from distant stars hosting exoplanets.