A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these ...

Expedition imagines what humans might encounter when exploring an alien world. In this video we dive into the planet’s environment and the lifeforms that inhabit it. Everything is built using ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...

Allen the Alien will be one of 18 playable characters available at launch in three-versus-three tag fighting game Invincible VS, publisher Skybound Games and developer Quarter Up announced. An open ...

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

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

If you examine our solar system’s giant planets, you’ll notice right away that they’ve all got moons—a lot of moons. While ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

For decades, the idea of alien life has lived somewhere between science and science fiction. From Hollywood & Bollywood films to grainy UFO footag.

Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets ...

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 ...