Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

ALIEN-HUNTERS have narrowed down their 21-year-search for extraterrestrial life to 100 “signals of interest”. The mammoth ...

After reviewing almost 30 years of signals, University of California Berkeley researchers have identified 100 mysterious, ...

What does it take to detect a radio signal sent by extraterrestrial life to Earth? Two decades of work involving radio ...

Despite criticism from the scientific community, his books sold almost 70 million copies in more than 30 languages.

After two decades of quiet data processing on millions of crowd-sourced home computers, the SETI@home project has narrowed ...

Frozen crystals of hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous substance, may have been essential to life on Saturn’s moon Titan, ...

Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

WHAT DOES IT TAKE to detect a radio signal sent by extraterrestrial life to Earth? Two decades of work involving radio ...

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