For decades, humanity has been searching the cosmos for signs of extraterrestrial life, yet we remain alone in our corner of the universe. Despite the vastness of space and the billions of potentially ...

It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

"Until we can separate these signals more clearly, we have to be especially careful not to misinterpret them as signs of life ...

It might or might not be the smell of aliens, but dimethyl sulfide — and its funky odor — definitely gets around ...

How would we communicate with extraterrestrial life forms? Scientists are investigating how we can prepare for contact with ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and ...

Set two years before Ridley Scott’s original movie (for reference, Romulus takes place between the first and second movie), ...

As science develops and our observational instruments improve, there’s a growing optimism within the exoplanet community that ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists anywhere else besides Earth.