A thick shell "implies a longer route that oxygen and nutrients would have to travel to connect Europa’s surface with its ...

Scientists may need to broaden their horizons in their search for alien life.

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Breakthrough Listen will scan the the skies with the aid of the MeerKAT Telescope. They are targeting a million nearby stars.

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After reviewing almost 30 years of signals, University of California Berkeley researchers have identified 100 mysterious, ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

The host Bill Maher fears aliens might meet Trump first, warning it would give them the wrong impression of humanity.

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...