Astronomers have detected four small planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, one of the closest stars to Earth, at just six ...

Donald Trump is expected to invoke a rarely-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in an effort to ramp up deportations.

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor at Pennsylvania State University. “We’re an expected or predictable outcome ...

UC Riverside scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method ...

Scientists have identified a promising new way to detect life on faraway planets, hinging on worlds that look nothing like Earth and gases rarely considered in the search for extraterrestrials. In a ...

Harvard University physicist Avi Loeb has responded to those who have cast doubt over his claim that metallic spherules retrieved from the seafloor near Papua New Guinea are from a meteorite of ...

Scientists have found a new form of water, called "plastic ice VII," that could possibly exist on other planets. This unusual ...

The project aims to scan the night sky to search for an unmistakable "smoking gun" proving the existence of an extraterrestrial civilization.

Better analysis techniques have given researchers the ability to detect radio pulses that last from seconds to minutes and ...