Are aliens real? The question has animated conspiracy theories for decades and enthralled at least one former president of ...

Scientists have taken a close look at our activity within the solar system to determine where to look for signals from intelligent alien life. The findings apply if those extraterrestrials explore ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we ...

Alien solar systems that are home to so-called "hot Jupiters" — gas giants circling sizzlingly close to their stars — are unlikely homes for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Hot Jupiters get their ...

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

Estimating the chance of getting a message from life beyond Earth, say within the next decade, isn’t easy. Even the best experts are reluctant to offer precise odds. “Anybody who gave you a figure ...

Long before the hunt began to find Earth lookalikes around other stars, one planet in the solar system had already been named Earth's twin. With its similar size and mass, Venus measures very close to ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

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TV has taught us many important lessons about aliens.They are either here to observe us, replace us, eat our cats, or gently judge our emotional intelligence while wearing a bathrobe. Sometimes all ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we might have a chance at detecting their ...