Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2 A giant planet spent more than a decade concealed inside one of astronomy’s most closely ...

A rare chemical signature has been detected in the atmosphere of a scorching alien world located roughly 700 light-years away ...

Fresh scientific findings highlight two major gaps in the hunt for alien life.

Have aliens visited us? As a statistician, I never want to say there is a zero percent chance of anything, but in this case, ...

Researchers have focused on that part of the radio spectrum on the assumption that an advanced civilization might recognize ...

Townfall being in first-person definitely sparked the thought of what P.T. could have been, because my time with Townfall ...

Astronomers may have been listening for alien civilizations in only a small slice of the radio spectrum while overlooking a largely unexplored range of higher frequencies. Using archived data from the ...

JWST quickly exposed the two candidates as Dyson sphere impostors – and the explanation was brilliantly simple. The light ...

In searches for past and present Martian life, some scientists say we’ve been too cautious to see what’s right in front of us ...

Most alien-signal searches listen to a narrow part of the radio spectrum, but astronomers are now testing higher frequencies that have barely been explored. A first search using archived ALMA ...

One of the challenges of searching for technosignatures (i.e., signs that intelligent life somewhere in the universe has ...