Brian Lacki has released a set of three prepublication studies attempting to rationalize and measure the odds of a ...

Even with modest assumptions, the Drake Equation often suggests the galaxy should be chock full of extraterrestrial neighbors ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured asteroid 10199 Chariklo occult the star Gaia DR3 6873519665992128512. It was the ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some have already been found. Thanks to rapidly advancing telescope technology, ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why, despite believing life likely exists elsewhere, he's still waiting for real proof.

Humanity may be one step closer to finally answering the question of whether we're alone in the cosmos with a definitive "no." A team of astronomers said it has found signs of what could be ...

White dwarfs may be stellar corpses, but that doesn't mean that everything around them has to be lifeless. That's the conclusion of Florida Institute of Technology researcher Caldon Whyte, who's ...

Astrobiology faces the fundamental challenge of searching for extraterrestrial life without a universal definition of life or examples beyond Earth, despite the discovery of over 5,000 exoplanets, ...

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the Universe), states ...

The idea is based on the Fermi Paradox, which questions why we haven't yet detected signs of intelligent extraterrestrial ...

Ellen Ripley herself spoke about a new script and meeting regarding her return to the character.