A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time.

A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific ...

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered 2,784 distant alien worlds. While some orbit within habitable zones and look ...

Even at a glance, the planets in our solar system are wildly diverse. Huge and small, airless and densely packed with ...

Usually, comets are dormant blocks of rock and ice. They only wake up when they get close to a star. The intense heat causes ...

Planets orbiting such stars may have a better chance of retaining their atmospheres and developing conditions suitable for ...

Inspired by a 2017 New York Times report on UFO sightings by US pilots, the new alien film offers what Steven Spielberg calls 'more truth than fiction.' ...

Star Trek: The Original Series was a unique show with a wide array of episodes, but certain elements had to be present in ...

Aristotle's views on the nature of the cosmos dominated the Ancient Greek world. He argued that there's only one world, at ...

From lava tubes on Mars to ice pockets on Europa, subterranean environments may offer the best chance of finding life—and living safely—beyond our planet. “I was like, ‘OK, I'm pretty sure that ...

It’s not little green men with flying saucers and laser guns that scientists are worried about, instead our foes will be much ...

Representative Tim Burchett made bold claims about the existence of alien life and UFOs in an interview earlier this month.