From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine before it. What will it find next? When you purchase through links on our site ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others ...

The traditional astrophysical recipe for life as we know it is quite simple: Get a rocky, gas-shrouded world in a “habitable zone” orbit around a star so that it’s not too hot or too cold. Then just ...

The opening scenes of Noah Hawley's "Alien: Earth" reveal that humankind will attempt to achieve immortality through these methods: cybernetically enhanced humans, artificial intelligence, and ...

A mysterious interstellar comet with bizarre features has revived one of the boldest scientific claims yet, the possibility that Earth’s life may have been intentionally “seeded” by an advanced ...

A lot of folks, human and otherwise, seem very interested in getting their hands on the newly crash-landed alien specimens. What could go wrong? By Sean T. Collins The “Alien” franchise explores two ...