Two major alien-life announcements in 2025 generated enormous excitement, but most astrobiologists remained unconvinced. Only 6.6% of surveyed experts thought possible biological molecules on K2-18b ...

Former NASA astronaut Winston Scott said he believes intelligent alien life exists, but cautioned that military conflict in ...

Elon Musk has raised concern about the lack of evidence of extraterrestrial life, prompting questions about why humanity has ...

Physicist Brian Cox explores where scientists might discover extraterrestrial life, focusing on Mars, Jupiter's moon Europa, ...

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus may be one of the most promising places in our solar system to search for extraterrestrial life.

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a multidisciplinary research area focused on detecting evidence of technologically advanced civilizations beyond Earth, primarily through their ...

This summer, exoplanet science—the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun—took a big step forward. Reports of helium gas escaping from the atmosphere of LHS 1140b propelled this exoplanet from ...

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known exoplanets that may have the right conditions to support life. Using new ...