Alien Life

Even with ambitious projects like the Breakthrough Listen initiative, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has come up empty...

Back in October, researchers using the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawaii spotted a long, red asteroid passing through our solar system...

This week, a lot of noise has been made online about Buzz Aldrin's claims that he saw a UFO during the Apollo 11 mission to the...

To the disappointment of pretty much everyone on Earth, it turns out that alien life is nowhere near as common, nor as easy to spot,...

Earth really is a special place.Our world the exact right distance from the sun to be able to support life, and its watery environment...

In the search for life beyond our planet, things are a little more complicated than just launching ourselves into space, receiving a...

The only planet in the known universe that has been definitively proven to shelter life forms is our own.This being the case, it's...

Alien researchers are chasing a surprising new conspiracy theory this week: Is the Great Pyramid of Giza a giant secret clue about...

We have a pretty good picture of how life evolved on Earth (depending on who you talk to), but the real question is how it began....

Mars may be named after the Roman god of war, but Venus is a much more hostile planet, with high pressures and an average surface...

For every 10 blurry photos of a "crashed alien craft" near Antarctica or Mylar party balloons mistakenly identified as flying...

Drake Equation aside, there's one big obstacle to finding exoplanets that may support life: our own lack of imagination.   For...

A little over two weeks ago, Twitter user @strayedaway (real name Ty) received a strange voicemail on his phone: a robotic voice...

Back in December 2013, China's Chang'e 3 lunar rover landed on the surface of the moon and began taking pictures of every rock and...

The Milky Way galaxy is a big place.With well over a hundred billion stars and plenty of planets in orbit around them, it makes sense...

Mars, the closest planet to the Earth, is a barren wasteland.The world has no atmosphere, and its surface is covered in dust and rock,...

How do you lose an ocean? How does an entire alien civiliization go extinct?These are questions that have baffled scientists for a...

One of the biggest points of speculation surrounding exploration of our own solar system is whether or not many of the frozen, icy...

We've been looking to the stars for proof of alien life all these years, but it turns out that might have been the wrong play....

Imagine being NASA scientist Jill Tarter.Imagine dedicating yourself to the study of the stars, and to trying to find alien life...