A NASA astronaut recently sent the internet into a frenzy when he posted an alien-looking photo on social media. The photo ...

The eerie purple orb freaking out social media is actually Spudnik-1, a homegrown ISS potato pointing to NASA's plans for ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

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Despite the universe's vastness, containing billions of stars and galaxies, humanity has yet to encounter alien life.

One of science’s greatest honours is to have something named after you. For example, geographer Alexander von Humboldt is remembered by a penguin, a Californian county, a mountain range and so much ...

One day, probably far off in the very distant future, if astronomers are correct in their assumptions about the vastness of space, Earth will be visited by intelligent beings from another planet.