The investigation of pulsar signals suggests that aliens may be communicating their presence by flashing signals in the ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar ...

Americans are becoming more open to the idea that aliens have visited Earth, according to a series of polls that show belief in alien visitation has been steadily on the rise since 2012. Moreover, ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

A team of astronomers have used the Hubble space telescope to capture with direct imaging asteroids smashing into each other ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

SN Ares might be the most exciting one. The star exploded when the universe was about one-third of its current age.

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...