Talk of extraterrestrial life has fascinated scientists and the public for decades, yet despite decades of searching, we ...

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

Scientists claim that first extraterrestrial contact will be a loud event impossible to ignore, not a subtle signal.

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

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

Within a few dozen light years of the Sun, the sky is crowded with stars that could, in principle, host living worlds. I want ...

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 ...

Advanced aliens could be chatting with each other using light flashes in plain sight, similar to how fireflies communicate, according to a new study that could lead to new approaches in finding ...

Is it alien? Is it natural? Those questions have followed the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS since it entered our solar system last year from beyond our own star system. A new study released ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...