The search for life doesn’t have to reach distant star systems—some of the best candidates may be right here in our own solar ...

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

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

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

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

There is currently no proof that the universe is home to other intelligent life forms aside from the ones that inhabit Earth, and evidence to the contrary ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

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

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 ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...