Breakthrough Listen will scan the the skies with the aid of the MeerKAT Telescope. They are targeting a million nearby stars.

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...

Scientists may have just taken one of the biggest steps yet in the search for life beyond Earth. Meet K2 18 b, a distant ...

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth ...

Scientists are raising concerns that we may be overlooking evidence of extraterrestrial life even when it is present. Hidden ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

The Great Filter theory suggests advanced civilisations may self-destruct before contacting others, explaining the universe's ...

When a scientific controversy or breakthrough dominates headlines, press officers and journalists often quote a handful of ...

Beneath the icy silence of Antarctica's famous Dry Valleys lies a world so unusual that it often resembles another planet.

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

Steven Spielberg's claims that aliens have already visited Earth have drawn a mixed but pointed scientists' reaction this week, with astrophysicists in the UK and Australia stressing that while ...