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 ...

For your extraterrestrial viewing needs, Stacker ranked the top 30 alien movies, according to their IMDb user rating.

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the Trump administration to ...

A Harvard University cosmologist who has suggested alien life forms could be sailing into the solar system disguised as meteors is leading the Trump administration’s secretive new scientific advisory ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built ...

NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar system, and it is thanks to ...

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering wildly, puzzling scientists until they ...

Maddy Turner is a planetary scientist working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute. Maddy’s primary research focuses include remote structural mapping and ...