Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

James Webb has detected a molecule in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18b that could be linked to life. The molecule, ...

The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

Are aliens real? A Nature Astronomy study reveals 87% of experts believe life exists. Explore how 3I/ATLAS and AI are ...

Humans have long imagined life on Mars, but what if the red planet actually delivered life to Earth in the first place?

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on distant exoplanets and the rusty plains of Mars. Now, a small ...

Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...