The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

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

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

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 composite view of Mars taken by the Viking I and II probes. NASA/USGS In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The ...

For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes ...

NASA’s missions to Saturn’s mysterious moon Titan have uncovered an alien world with lakes and seas made of liquid ...

In the real world, convinced that aliens were planning to beam him into the sky, Daniel says that he repeatedly drove his ...

After over 15 years, director Steven Spielberg is finally getting back into the world of alien invaders. Sure, as a producer, Spielberg has continued to attach his name to shows like Falling Skies and ...