Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...

Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers have so far identified over 6,000 exoplanets beyond our ...

Assembly Theory shifts the search for life from identifying specific molecules to measuring chemical complexity, offering a ...

“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from ...

A new catalog of potentially habitable exoplanets provides the framework for future observations in the search for alien life ...

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which ...

We might have had it wrong this whole time.

A new method to recognise the chemical properties of living things could help us detect alien life even if it functions differently from life on Earth. When searching for alien life, scientists ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.