What would aliens actually look like? While simple life forms like bacteria may be common in the universe, complex ...

Experts stress need for transparency while aiming to prevent premature announcements and protect scientists ...

A set of protocols telling scientists what to do – and what not to do – if they ever detect evidence of intelligent life ...

So many things had to happen for us (humans) to end up here (Earth). Our species is made possible because a water-filled planet orbits a particular distance away from a star of a particular size.

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth could thus be overlooking prime evidence of alien intelligence.

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new ...

Researchers at SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) might be looking for the wrong thing, says one of SETI's astronomers in The Guardian. They're looking for aliens that are like us.

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...

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News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it, tend to be positive. We are often told that we might discover it any time now. Finding life beyond ...

Many have watched recently released UFO videos, but most still think the government knows more than it is saying.

Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley clearly didn’t think the franchise was doing enough with the implications of its title. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) imagined the kind of nightmare lifeforms that ...