Scientists are raising concerns that we may be overlooking evidence of extraterrestrial life even when it is present. Hidden ...

In April 2019, Australia’s CSIRO radio telescope near the town of Parkes in NSW heard something odd. It was watching the nearby star Proxima Centauri. Its purpose was to observe the impact of solar ...

When you're looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, it helps to know what you're looking for and to go about it in the most efficient way. But work so far has generally not done so, writes ...

Astrobiology poses fundamental questions about life in the universe: How did it emerge? Is there life beyond Earth? In a recently published study in PLOS One, researchers from Leiden University ...

In short: A Pentagon report into UFO sightings found a spike in reports in the 1950s and 60s when increased secret military testing was occurring. The report found no evidence of extraterrestrial ...

Do aliens exist? Could Earth really be the only planet hosting intelligent life? Debates over the existence of extraterrestrials date back to the earliest Indigenous and western thought. The tools ...

Washington | Scientists at four of the world’s leading universities have teamed up to investigate the origins of life on Earth, and look for similar biological processes taking place elsewhere in the ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...