For decades, humanity has been searching the cosmos for signs of extraterrestrial life, yet we remain alone in our corner of the universe. Despite the vastness of space and the billions of potentially ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright scepticism. Recently, scientists claimed the “strongest evidence” of ...

It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the ...

Here's everything to know about the discovery, the intriguing exoplanet itself and the ongoing search for life in the cosmos. A strong possibility exists that extraterrestrial life can be found on ...

"Until we can separate these signals more clearly, we have to be especially careful not to misinterpret them as signs of life ...

During February to June 2024, we carried out four surveys regarding the likely existence of basic, complex, and intelligent extraterrestrial life. We sent emails to astrobiologists (scientists who ...

There’s even an argument to be made that we wouldn’t necessarily know what the signs of extraterrestrial life would look like even if it was right in front of us.

Alien life might look unlike anything we've ever seen on Earth. Trying to find evidence of these unknown organisms will require some creativity. When you purchase through links on our site ...

How would we communicate with extraterrestrial life forms? Scientists are investigating how we can prepare for contact with ...

But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might look like? These questions are preoccupying astrobiologists, who are scientists ...

Short of an alien radio message, spectra of chemicals produced exclusively by living things—called biosignatures—may be the only evidence of life we can collect from planets light-years away.

Here's everything to know about the discovery, the exoplanet and the search for life in the cosmos. A strong possibility exists that extraterrestrial life can be found on a distant exoplanet known ...