For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp ...

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a ‘super-Earth’ less than 20 light-years away, which could potentially harbor extraterrestrial life. This exoplanet, six times larger than our ...

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The odds are that life is out there – but rather than little green men, it may look more like hydrothermal vent tubeworms ...