A 37-year-old man was shot and killed on Saturday amid a chaotic confrontation between protesters and federal immigration ...

What if life on Earth didn’t begin here at all, but arrived from somewhere else in the universe? Panspermia is the ...

Astronomers are using China's powerful FAST radio telescope to chase after 100 intriguing signals detected by the SETI@home ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

Carole Haswell receives funding from STFC. We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate? How could ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...

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 ...

They’ve got their 3Is on the prize. The highly anticipated data 3I/ATLAS’ Earth tour last month is in. A targeted scan of 3I/ATLAS for signs of radio transmitting tech has come up empty — but Harvard ...

Michel Brahic tells us that the formation of the last universal common ancestor from a soup of chemicals was “an extremely unlikely event, with a probability estimated at less than 1 in a billion” (6 ...

Scientists are proposing a new source of fuel for potential alien life on Europa: Radioactive elements seeping out of rocks and into the moon’s ocean, where it could generate enough energy to support ...