From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

In recent decades, exoplanets discovery has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos. These distant worlds, orbiting stars beyond our Sun, have opened an entirely new chapter in astronomy. Once ...

A planet that could have similar conditions to Earth has been found 40 light years away. Gliese 12b is about the size of Venus. It's a lot cooler than other planets found outside of the solar system - ...

Signals from a distant world have pushed the search for alien life out of science fiction and into the realm of testable ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

According to a new scientific hypothesis, alien civilisations may only become detectable at the moment of their collapse.

Astronomers usually don't like clouds. After all, clouds obscure their view of the cosmos. But dense cloud coverage is now something astronomers might look for on distant exoplanets. Researchers at ...

THE SETI project — the search for intelligent life — has pointed its ears towards a new planet discovered by the Kepler space telescope. The early results? Silence. The Allen radio telescope array at ...

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... Scientists have been studying the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

The Allen radio telescope array at Hat Creek, California, was tilted towards a piece of the Pisces constellation which has been under Kepler’s careful scrutiny in recent years — it’s sensitive ...