From the deserts of New Mexico to missile silos in Montana, eyewitnesses and—more recently—declassified government documents ...

The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...

A U.K.-led mission aims to determine if microbial life exists in Venus’s clouds by detecting phosphine and ammonia.

"Our work supports both the scientific quest to answer the question 'Are we alone?' and practical efforts to manage the ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

A mysterious visitor from another solar system could be an alien spacecraft, according to a leading Harvard astronomer.

The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...

Susan Worlton only knew her sisters from her mother’s stories and the few pictures that remain. In a courtroom on Friday, ...

Two men have been sentenced for their roles in the deaths of 53 migrants being smuggled inside a tractor trailer in southwest ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...

Stories about the existence of aliens, and our chances of detecting them, tend to be positive. We are told that we might ...

The key to determining which planets could host extraterrestrial life could be growing in the harshest deserts of Earth in the form of lichen. The secret to this discovery: the "world's best ...