Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant ...

Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the "Goldilocks Zone" around a star. This is defined as the ...

Emma Stone’s hard-faced corporate CEO has a lot of explaining to do when she is kidnapped by Jesse Plemons’s conspiracy kook. But in this film, asking whether someone is an alien seems an ordinary inq ...

That means if aliens were to exist, and they were located some 66 million light-years from Earth, they’d theoretically still ...

Life needs nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. But without the right balance of oxygen, these elements get locked away in ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

Scientists identify exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, a possible Earth-size world orbiting a Sun-like star 146 light-years away ...

With the release, the American public could learn what, if anything, the government has documented about the unexplained ...

There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life, in trying to answer questions ...