After two decades of quiet data processing on millions of crowd-sourced home computers, the SETI@home project has narrowed ...

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

The search for extraterrestrial life in this vast universe needs all hands on deck. A crowd-sourced project from UC Berkeley ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just ...

Hulu’s Alien: Earth did a much better job of bringing a classic sci-fi franchise to the small screen than most of the ...

New photos show off NASA's newly constructed Roman Space Telescope, which will soon help researchers unravel the mysteries of ...

Subir Sarkar receives funding from the UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) councils. The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. But my colleagues and I have published a new study ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

A federal judge on Monday said the U.S. government denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador in March after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. The ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...