The quest to find extraterrestrial life is an unending pursuit of science, and one aspect of this search revolves around technosignatures. Detectable from as far as 40 light-years away, Earth’s ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Across astronomy and astrobiology, a quiet but profound shift is underway. Instead of assuming the galaxy teems with ...

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 ...

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

We’ve likely had at least one close encounter of the 3I kind before. Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims that not only does 3I/ATLAS potentially have alien origins, but that this wouldn’t be the first ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

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

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

A new study presented at the 2025 EPSC/DPS Joint Meeting proposes that the rarity of specific geological and atmospheric conditions necessary for technologically advanced life significantly limits the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at ...

A strange object hurdling through our solar system from interstellar space may, according to one of academia’s most controversial astronomers, have been sent by aliens to see how smart we are. “It is ...