Alien Life

Star Trek is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and the franchise is celebrating with both Star Trek Beyond and a new TV...

Have we been looking for signs of Martian life in the wrong place? A new study claims that meteorites may destroy all signs of life...

In 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke's sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Jupiter was "ignited" through a nuclear fusion process, and...

There are many, many unanswered questions about potentially contacting intelligent extraterrestrials. First, there's the little...

Most of the conversation surrounding the probability of alien life asks whether intelligent extraterrestrials exist right now (and if...

Even though it's probably just comets, the mysterious flickering of star KIC 8462852 has yet to be definitively solved. And as long as...

By now you've probably heard of the Fermi paradox, which essentially boils down to: "if there is highly intelligent life out there,...

Jupiter's moon Europa has long been considered a prime candidate for the discovery of alien life, as a result of the subterranean...

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...