When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

For decades, astronomers have chased fleeting hints that something alive might be lurking beyond Earth, only to watch each ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A composite view of Mars taken by the Viking I and II probes. NASA/USGS In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible ...

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

The UK must plan for a new financial crisis that would be triggered when the US government announces aliens exist, Bank of ...

A former senior analyst for The Bank of England warned the bank to prepare for alien contact, citing the United States' ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of interest using the world's largest radio telescope.

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...