Astronomers estimate there could be a trillion planets in our galaxy, yet no confirmed signs of alien civilizations. The talk ...

Our universe does host life, but another one might be even better suited for life. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers are studying how hospitable our universe is to ...

When you look back at ’90s and 2000s sci-fi, it’s amazing how one movie with a giant stone ring changed virtually everything. Stargate began in 1994 as a single big-screen adventure starring Kurt ...

If a Galactic Internet is out there, we may be like fish swimming through the ocean, unaware of the undersea cables carrying vast streams of information around us. The data may be flowing right past ...

Scientists are sharpening the methods used to search for alien artifacts inside our own solar system, drawing on recent ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.

Astronauts of the future may be radically different from the rest of us in physiology and psychology. So, to what extent might they resemble or represent ordinary humans?

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

A recent study suggests that late M-stars, despite their abundance in the galaxy and potential for hosting detectable Earth-like planets, are unlikely to support the emergence of complex animal life.

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars. Planet Earth sits along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times ...

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