The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

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

For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes ...

Some astronomers have made it their life’s work to find “Earth 2.0,” a rocky planet orbiting a star just like our own Sun. It ...

For centuries, humans have gazed at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe. The question of ...

A former policy expert of the Bank of England told The Times of London that politicians and bankers can’t afford to dismiss ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

In 2021, a curious discovery pushed penguins into an unexpected corner of science. Researchers studying chemical signatures ...

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

Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...