For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...

The mysterious 3I/ATLAS comet is hurtling towards Earth and is set to make its closest approach on Friday, December 19, with ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and a well-known BBC presenter, believes scientists will make a ...

In this scenario, our first contact with aliens would be tragic. We should look for "loud shouts in the night".

He cited the astronomical gaffe in January, when The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., announced the discovery of an ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

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An illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18b might look like based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. K2-18b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the ...