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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large object like a moon or a planet; scientists suspect you also ...