Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, we've wondered who, or what, might be looking back. From ancient myths about gods descending from the heavens to 20th-century UFO sightings and ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

Musk compared consciousness to a candle in a “vast darkness" during remarks about aliens at the World Economic Forum in Davos ...

Astronomers have detected the first-ever "radio signal" coming from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, right as it passed the halfway mark on its oneway trip through the solar system. And while this may ...

It's one of life's biggest questions – are we alone in the universe? Now, in good news for sci–fi fans, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared she is 'absolutely convinced' there are ...

In her new book "First Contact," journalist Becky Ferreira explores the scientific search for alien life, our cultural obsessions with extraterrestrials and why the truth may be more human than we ...