Alien Life

Is Earth's intelligent life unique in the universe? In the upcoming book The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a...

Europa is rapidly becoming the object of superstar (read supermoon) of the scientific community. Hailed as one of the prime suspects...

Is it a good idea to contact intelligent aliens? According to a recent Huffington Post poll, most Americans are either opposed to...

Neil DeGrasse Tyson's response to creationist Ken Ham's assertion that we should stop looking for aliens, because they're going to...

Mathematicians from the University of Edinburgh calculated that alien probes may already have explored this galaxy.    In an...

Would aliens want to help us or hurt us? In a paper by researchers Seth D. Bauma and Jacob D. Haqq-Misra of Pennsylvania State...

Have other intelligent beings polluted their environment? Harvard researchers are tentatively making this assumption in their new...

Is there intelligent life in the universe? It doesn't matter, according to creationist Ken Ham, because any intelligent beings that...

In a question and answer session on reddit, Royal Hallaway Geophysisist David Waltham graced us with his elucidative insight on...

Earth to Echo, the upcoming film about a group of children who befriend a tiny, owl-like alien robot, may have a relatively realistic...

An international team of astronomers has just discovered a planet that is considered to be one of three exoplanets that are most...

A former U.S. marine is claiming that the government sent him to Mars as part of an elite military unit of "super-soldiers" that...

According to Christopher McKay, the director of NASA's Ames Research Center in California, the criteria that astronomers routinely...

David Waltham, physicist and author of "Lucky Planet", recently wrote an article for theconversation.com proposing his rather unique...

When searching for extraterrestrial life, astrobiologists often study the origin of life on Earth in order to determine search...

"Cosmos" presenter and astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson has many issues with our search for alien intelligence.   First, he...

On Wednesday, May 21, Congress's Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee held hearings on the research carried out in the Search...

Independent American Think-tank The Brookings Institution is rapidly approaching 100 years of operation. Over those years the...

A short yet powerful burst of radio waves has been detected deep in outer space by a team of astronomers at the Arecibo Observatory in...

Planets that possess extreme axis pivots could be more likely to possess habitable environments according to a new study from a team...