To support alien life, a planet doesn’t have to be exactly like Earth, but it does need a few key ingredients. First, it ...

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the "Goldilocks Zone" around a star. This is defined as the orbital band where the temperature is just right for liquid water to pool ...

If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help ...

There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life, in trying to answer questions ...

Aliens exist - they just haven't visited Earth, NASA veteran Dr Gentry Lee has claimed.

Scientists identify exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, a possible Earth-size world orbiting a Sun-like star 146 light-years away ...

Avi Loeb, who challenged scientists on the true origin of 3I/ATLAS, reckons alien life form will make contact with us soon ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

With the release, the American public could learn what, if anything, the government has documented about the unexplained ...