Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, ...

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

Contacting extraterrestrial life was a mission that was taken seriously by astronomers and the scientific community. A new investigation found that we could calculate the distance to the nearest alien ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

According to popular media, the search for alien life involves advanced technology, space exploration and sometimes even government conspiracies and secret programs. But according to University of ...

A growing number of studies have cast doubt on earlier claims about signs of life on K2-18b, a planet 124 light-years away in the Leo constellation, concluding that the available data doesn’t support ...

"We inch closer to understanding where life might be possible beyond this planet we call home." The key to determining which planets could host extraterrestrial life could be growing in the harshest ...

As many as 200 worlds beyond our solar system discovered by astronomers may be larger than estimated, which could influence the search for extraterrestrial life. That's the theory of a team of ...

Mars, Europa and Enceladus are the three most promising locations in the solar system to search for life living off cosmic rays. Cosmic rays could be a vital source of energy for life on icy moons, on ...

Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's alien life closer to home — within the bounds of our solar system? The ...