CHINA recently upped the ante in the search for alien life in the Universe with the completion of the world’s largest telescope. The vast telescope is made up of 4,450 panels and with a width of 500m ...

While alien hunting is often associated with tinfoil hats and flying saucers, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ...

Chinese scientists have proposed a space project to survey the sky through a space-borne telescope to hunt for habitable Earth-like planets outside the solar system, about 32 light-years from Earth.

The hunt for intelligent life beyond Earth has quietly entered a more exacting phase, and one small, cool star has become a ...

THE James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first-ever exoplanet - a distant world hidden by the glare of its nearest star. The landmark discovery marks a new era for alien-hunters, according to ...

While thousands of exoplanets - planets outside of our solar system - have been discovered, getting pictures of them still proves tricky THE James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first-ever ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...