Out of the 6,000 known exoplanets, it's these rocky worlds that are most worthy of attention in the search for life beyond our planet. Reading time 3 minutes In humanity’s search for life beyond Earth ...

The Trump administration has registered the federal domain Aliens.gov, amid renewed public interest in unidentified anomalous phenomena, often referred to as UFOs or UAPs. President Donald Trump has ...

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Steven Spielberg took a bit of a jab at Timothée Chalamet’s recent comments alluding to the cultural irrelevance of art forms like ballet and opera, during an appearance Friday at SXSW. Asked about ...

For someone who’s made as many alien movies as he has, you’d think Steven Spielberg would be a full-on tinfoil-hat believer. But the director of such sci-fi classics as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, ...

Solar winds and coronal mass ejections may scatter narrow signals, making them harder for Earth-based telescopes to detect. The SETI Institute uses radio telescopes to search for signs of intelligent ...

There is so much fun and fascinating stuff in Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir’s novel about a last-ditch attempt to stop our sun from dying, that I felt guilty for abandoning it nary 100 pages in. I ...

Aliens have invaded the news again. Last month, two US presidents weighed in on the topic in rapid succession, managing to make a public that was already obsessed with extraterrestrials even more so.

"If a signal gets broadened by its own star's environment, it can slip below our detection thresholds, even if it's there." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific Reports. Treating simulated lunar soil with both symbiotic fungi and ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...