With Hello Out There, director Otis Blum examines the search for connection with aliens, and the alienation we feel on earth.

The European Space Agency is planning an emergency alien-hunting mission to Enceladus after the bombshell discovery.

In her new book "First Contact," journalist Becky Ferreira explores the scientific search for alien life, our cultural ...

Cosmic rays traveling through space may provide enough energy to sustain life even in incredibly cold and dark environments, a new study suggests. reading time 2 minutes The search for alien life is ...

The idea is based on the Fermi Paradox, which questions why we haven't yet detected signs of intelligent extraterrestrial ...

The search for extraterrestrial life, a long-standing pursuit dating back to antiquity, has shifted from focusing solely on direct observation to incorporating methods like spectroscopic analysis of ...

The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, ...

Imagine if the nearest intelligent aliens were not across the street, not across the solar system, but on the far side of the Milky Way, some 33,000 light-years away from Earth. That’s the scenario ...

Today we’re ditching the drama on Earth and talking about K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away. K2-18b recently made headlines after researchers claimed to observe possible “signs of life” in the ...

Complex, intelligent life in the galaxy appears vanishingly rare, with the nearest possible civilization perhaps 33,000 light ...

Estimating the chance of getting a message from life beyond Earth, say within the next decade, isn’t easy. Even the best experts are reluctant to offer precise odds. “Anybody who gave you a figure ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic organisms don’t require oxygen to grow. “They’d be adapted to a very different ...