Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...

Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar fingerprints of biology, researchers are training algorithms to spot the deeper ...

The fictional biologist in ‘Project Hail Mary’ claims that potential alien organisms might not be made of carbon or require ...

A new method to recognise the chemical properties of living things could help us detect alien life even if it functions differently from life on Earth. When searching for alien life, scientists ...

Extraterrestrials are already here on Earth, disguised as humans or living in secret bases hidden underground or even on the far side of the moon, according to a shocking new scientific paper from Ivy ...

Roughly 66 million years ago, scientists believe an enormous meteor, dubbed Chicxulub, smashed into the Earth in an extinction-level event that wiped out 75 percent of life, including the vast ...