A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these ...

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

A decade ago, Ridley Scott’s The Martian was released. With a script by ...

Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the "Goldilocks Zone" around a star. This is defined as the orbital band where the temperature is just right for liquid water to pool ...

Indie Spotlight | Planet of Lana 2 has the right amount of head-scratching and cinematic adventure to be worth experiencing ...

Emma Stone’s hard-faced corporate CEO has a lot of explaining to do when she is kidnapped by Jesse Plemons’s conspiracy kook. But in this film, asking whether someone is an alien seems an ordinary inq ...

The reason we haven’t heard from aliens could be remarkably simple: interstellar communication is hard, and turbulent plasma ...