Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

Enceladus is Saturn's sixth-largest moon, a 500 km-wide icy world famed for its south polar geysers spewing water from a ...

According to popular media, the search for alien life involves advanced technology, space exploration and sometimes even ...

According to Michael, a staff member at the Little A’Le’Inn, in the very tiny town of Rachel, Nevada, “I’ve seen things in the night sky that should not be there.” “Aliens?” I asked, a hunch since I ...

What, after all, was one more critic? He resembled a caricature of a scientist, his body wiry and short, in a plaid tailored suit, holding an expression that suggested both the severely etched ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is moving forward with a mission to Saturn’s moon Enceladus, one of the most promising places ...

Scientists have developed a new way to hunt for hidden signals of past life, and say it could assist in the search for extraterrestrial organisms on other planets.

It’s one of the most popular themes in science fiction—top secret government experts are ready to spring into action if a UFO appears. For example, in the novella-based 2016 film Arrival, the ...

Are we alone? Is life around us a cosmic accident that only happened once on this lonely planet, making human beings the only technological civilization anywhere? Or is the universe teeming with life, ...

In the summer of 1950, four men sat down for lunch together at Los Alamos. It was, at the time, the center of American physics, and these men were respected contributors to their field. Among them was ...

The idea of creatures from another planet is part of our culture, from the warnings of the alien in “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” to the plaintive desire to return home in “E. T. the ...