Jay Stratton's memoir, 'Out of the Shadows,' is being published Oct. 13 ...

This could be why we still haven’t found alien life - Traces left behind by organisms on alien worlds may be too subtle to ...

Remember the WOW signal from 1977? A 72-second narrowband radio signal detected by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope created a significant buzz. But then, everything went silent. For ...

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, astronomers claim they have directly measured the magnetic fields of multiple planets beyond our solar system — potentially providing a crucial new tool in the search ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

The trick isn't to just search for biosignatures, but rather to look at how they are organized — and the Europa Clipper has an instrument for this. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

To travel between solar systems, a spacecraft would need extremely sophisticated – if not impossible – technology.

Astrobiologists are raising concerns that humanity’s search for alien life may be limited by the very tools designed to find it.

The US has recovered four distinct species of extraterrestrial life from crashed UFOs, a former CIA-funded government researcher sensationally claimed this week.

A faint blip on a telescope readout can set off a wave of excitement. Maybe it is a molecule tied to life. Maybe it is drifting through a distant nebula where stars are forming. Or maybe it is hanging ...

On Episode 206 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Brianne Suldovsky of Portland State University to discuss what happens after the discovery of an alien life form.