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

Steven Spielberg once again made a movie that focuses on aliens coming to Earth, so it's probably worth watching some other ...

Eventually, we'll launch a mission dedicated solely to studying an interstellar object. When that day comes, which one should ...

Astronomers have identified GJ 3378b, a super-Earth located 25 light-years away, in the habitable zone of its star, raising ...

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

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 ...

Scientists may have found the strongest hint yet that life could exist beyond Earth, and the focus is not Mars but a distant ...

Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks ...

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

CoRoT-2 b is a hot Jupiter 696 light-years away whose thermal hotspot is shifted in the wrong direction. New VLT data ...

While telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can detect the chemical fingerprints of distant atmospheres, ...

James Webb uncovered exotic salt clouds surrounding the famous "Pink Planet," solving a long-standing mystery about one of ...