When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

Musk compared consciousness to a candle in a “vast darkness" during remarks about aliens at the World Economic Forum in Davos ...

Tiny delays in pulsar signals measured by SETI scientists could aid the search for gravitational waves and extraterrestrial life.

The director behind one of the year’s buzziest UFO documentaries is now openly suggesting that a sitting president could be the person who finally tells the world whether intelligent life exists ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

There is currently no proof that the universe is home to other intelligent life forms aside from the ones that inhabit Earth, and evidence to the contrary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A composite view of Mars taken by the Viking I and II probes. NASA/USGS In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

A scientist at the University of Glasgow has delved into the possible existence of ...