When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

Using data gathered by NASA's Juno Jupiter orbiter, scientists estimate that Europa's ice shell is about 18 miles thick — ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

Scientists claim that first extraterrestrial contact will be a loud event impossible to ignore, not a subtle signal.

Scientists may need to broaden their horizons in their search for alien life.

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

The Bank of England has been urged by former senior analyst Helen McCaw to prepare for the possibility of extraterrestrial ...

A former senior analyst for The Bank of England warned the bank to prepare for alien contact, citing the United States' ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

A newly discovered “super-Earth” planet could allow us to finally see alien life, researchers say. The world – named GJ 251 c and lying less than 20 light years away – is thought to be a “super Earth” ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.