The discovery bemused residents of a small town in northeastern Australia. The objects appear to be junk from a space launch, ...

Australia's space agency said there's a completely rational, albeit cosmic, explanation behind the mysterious orbs that ...

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Astronomers have revised the mass of nearby exoplanet GJ 3378 b, recasting it as a rocky super‑Earth in the habitable zone ...

Thousands of people have reported UFOs or alien encounters in Northern California. That number could soon go up.

Metal spheres found on a Queensland beach are likely space debris, not extraterrestrial. The Australian Space Agency is working with international partners to confirm their origin.

K2-18b is one of the most promising worlds for the search for extraterrestrial life, so astronomers conducted an unusually ...

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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.

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

Scientists have identified new clues that could help astronomers spot one of the most famous hypothetical alien ...

That sharp, briny smell is not the salt, it is a gas made by life, breathed out by tiny ocean creatures too small to see. For ...