"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

Exploring the quest for alien life through Bayesian analysis, emphasizing the importance of asking the right questions in ...

If aliens are out there, then our radar systems are putting on quite an electromagnetic show for them. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The SETI Institute’s goal is to lead a science ...

For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

A planet more than 100 light years away from Earth could be "teeming with alien life" after the "strongest ever signs of ...

The search for extraterrestrial life is one of the most exciting frontiers of modern science. Thanks to recent discoveries of exoplanets like Gliese 581 g, Kepler-22 b, Kepler-186 f, and Kepler-452 b, ...

The post “Alien: Earth” surprises: From xenomorph teeth to a “White Lotus” star appeared first on Salon.com. She got her ...

Teledyne Brown Engineering helped implement the Extant Life Volumetric Imaging System (ELVIS) project aboard the ISS.

Scientists may have just found alien life—on a distant ocean world 124 light-years away. Dimethyl sulfide, a known ...

Another intergral part of the Alien franchise is that, yes, the aliens are brutal killers. But the humans who are trying to ...

A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

Without enough liquid water on the surface, a planet's atmosphere can become choked with carbon dioxide, raising temperatures to a level beyond what is survivable for all known life ...