The object, called 3I/ATLAS, is only the third interstellar visitor ever detected passing through our Solar System.
It may seem like we are on the verge of discovering alien life. In 2025, a press release stated that we have the "strongest ...
Suppose there are signs of extraterrestrial life and we have not yet been able to detect them. What does that mean? In Nature Astronomy, researchers discuss the consequences of these so-called ...
Fictional and nonfictional takes on extraterrestrial life. Steven Rowley’s new novel Take Me With You is about a man whose ...
Scientists have searched one of the only known visitors to us from another solar system for signs of alien technology – and ...
Nearly four kilometres beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet, Lake Vostok sits in darkness under enough ice to hide one of the ...
Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...
Astrobiologists are raising concerns that humanity’s search for alien life may be limited by the very tools designed to find it.
This could be why we still haven’t found alien life - Traces left behind by organisms on alien worlds may be too subtle to ...