Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

The quest to find extraterrestrial life is an unending pursuit of science, and one aspect of this search revolves around technosignatures. Detectable from as far as 40 light-years away, Earth’s ...

The American government has identified four distinct types of alien life, a former CIA-backed advanced weapons researcher has claimed ...

The researchers analyzed the phenomenon of “false negatives,” cases in which evidence of biological activity in space is ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines a very different kind of solar system that could harbor life-forms we haven ...

Suppose there are signs of extraterrestrial life and we have not yet been able to detect them. What does that mean? In Nature ...

Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide their search for life in the universe. While it’s most convenient to start looking for life using the knowledge that ...

For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on distant exoplanets and the rusty plains of Mars. Now, a small icy world in orbit around Saturn is emerging as one of the most compelling ...

A new method to recognise the chemical properties of living things could help us detect alien life even if it functions differently from life on Earth. When searching for alien life, scientists ...