Astronomers have identified over 10,000 new exoplanet candidates using AI to mine TESS data, potentially tripling the known tally of alien worlds. At the same time, new research challenges long-held ...

If advanced aliens lived on a planet within a few hundred to a thousand light years away from Earth, then vast numbers of their signals must already have crossed Earth without being noticed, a new ...

Astrophysicist Benjamin Zuckerman concludes that no alien civilization has passed within 100 light-years of Earth in billions of years, based on the absence of alien probes or strong, continuous ...

Searching for alien life by looking for specific signals from individual planets may overlook a larger pattern, new research ...

The Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years across, but the new results suggest that the galaxy's star formation takes ...