Alien Life

When a normal yellow star, like our Sun, starts to reach the end of its life, it swells up to hundreds of times its normal size and...

In the biggest single announcement of exoplanets ever recorded, NASA's Kepler team has announced that they have unveiled 1,284 new...

As of now, it would take a prohibitive amount of time to reach potentially habitable exoplanets to physically search for...

NASA is about to launch the groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope in 2018, but even with that state-of-the-art technology, we...

We may have just found the three most promising candidates in the search for alien life. Researchers have just found three potentially...

After much teasing, SpaceX has officially announced that they're sending their Dragon spacecraft to Mars in 2018: Planning to send...

Jupiter's moon Europa has long considered to be a prime candidate for the discovery of extraterrestrial life, as scientists believe...

Stephen Hawking just announced his intention to work with billionaire Yuri Milner, Mark Zuckerberg, and other prominent scientists on...

Yesterday, Stephen Hawking and billionaire Yuri Milner announced Breakthrough Starshot, a project that aims to build tiny,...

Astrobiologists might have discovered the best place to look for alien life on Mars, in the form of a region called the Argyre basin,...

Scientists have discovered several small, rocky, relatively Earth-like planets within their star's Goldilocks zone that could...

Humans are endlessly curious about the existence and nature of intelligent alien life, and so most of the conversation surrounding...

SETI just expanded its search for intelligent aliens in a big way. Over the next two years, a new initiative will search 20,000 star...

Many methods have been proposed for finding intelligent extraterrestrial life, but considering the vastness of the universe, and the...

In the last few decades, astronomers have discovered over 1,000 exoplanets, but still haven't found any exomoons. Now, NASA is kicking...

Fast radio bursts were discovered by astronomers almost fifteen years ago, and yet there is still no generally accepted explanation...

Finding alien life would undoubtedly be one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time, if only because we would finally know...

A couple weeks ago, in celebration of The X-Files' return to television, the CIA released some documents detailing a few of their many...

Astronomers from the University of Washington have devised a new habitability index, based on a planet's appearance when it's...

Even though the movie Interstellar depicted the possibility of habitable planets in orbit around a black hole, it’s been a known...