Signals from a distant world have pushed the search for alien life out of science fiction and into the realm of testable ...

An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS.

Some scientific breakthroughs may be lost to time due to scandal and redaction, while others are simply a case of waiting for ...

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.

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

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

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...

When astronomers search for life beyond Earth, they usually start with a familiar question: could a particular exoplanet support biology like ours? Liquid water, mild temperatures, and Earth-like ...

When we imagine contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we tend to picture messages: radio signals, mathematical codes, or perhaps a universal language waiting to be discovered. But what if alien ...

Some of the best science fiction games revolve around space: exploring it, discovering new planets, and ship-to-ship battles. At its core, it is a genre that asks who we are by showing us who else ...