Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, we've wondered who, or what, might be looking back. From ancient myths about gods descending from the heavens to 20th-century UFO sightings and ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

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Musk compared consciousness to a candle in a “vast darkness" during remarks about aliens at the World Economic Forum in Davos ...

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

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 ...

An astrophotograph of the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS highlights its green coma and a wandering blue-tinted ion tail. (Copyright Victor Sabet and Julien De ...