A study has cast doubt on the idea that Jupiter's moon Europa, where NASA has sent a spacecraft, could have conditions to ...

For centuries, humans have gazed at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe. The question of ...

Elon Musk addressed the topic of extraterrestrial life during an appearance on Peter Diamandis’ Moonshots podcast, shared on ...

Scientists reveal that interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be delivering organic building blocks to Jupiter's moon Europa, ...

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

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.

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 ...

Is intelligent alien life out there in the Universe? Well, with scientists discovering new exoplanets every year, yeah, the possibility only grows stronger. Will we discover alien life in the future?

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

That’s what most Americans believe, according to a new YouGov poll. The majority think that extraterrestrial aliens definitely or probably exist, the survey found, and many are also pretty sure ...

A documentary argues that the U.S. government needs to divulge what it knows about the phenomena formerly called U.F.O.s. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

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