Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes The search for alien life usually hinges on finding the ...

A new SETI methodology focuses on detecting the "spillover" from directed interstellar communications, mirroring how we communicate with our own spacecraft, rather than relying on broad, speculative ...

The Deep Space Network (DSN) is just the sort of tool aliens could one-day detect, transmitting from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL What if the first signal ever detected from an alien lifeform wasn't a ...

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Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine before it. What will it find next? When you purchase through links on our site ...

It's one of life's biggest questions – are we alone in the universe? Now, in good news for sci–fi fans, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared she is 'absolutely convinced' there are ...

Hidden within Cassiopeia A, the youngest known exploded star in our galaxy, astronomers have found surprisingly high levels of chlorine and potassium. These elements carry an odd number of protons in ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we might have a chance at detecting their ...

The first time Fontella “Faun” Day believes she saw life from another planet, it came from above. It was a cloudy afternoon in Rachel, Nevada, and the phones and computers at the Alien Cowpoke gas ...

The series “Alien: Earth” feels a bit like the “Alien” franchise crash-landed into an entirely separate science fiction saga, because that’s more or less how it begins. The show is creator Noah Hawley ...