A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

A new SETI study argues that turbulent space weather around distant stars can smear out ultra‑narrow alien radio signals, ...

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

A complete Cretaceous shellfish fossil. (University of Portsmouth) Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly ...

Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful radio ...

Scientists have rewritten global 'first contact' protocols for how to confirm and announce the discovery of alien intelligence, stressing verification and transparency in an age of deepfakes and ...

Subnautica built one of the most atmospheric alien ocean environments in gaming and buried a complete alien civilization's ...

Do not shout ‘alien!’” Amid surge of public interest in UFOs or UAP, one group updated its rules for how news of extraterrestrials should be revealed.

Strange interstellar comet speculated to be alien spacecraft is older than Solar System - Scientists say comet represents ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

Scientists in a recent breakthrough have discovered vast hidden magma systems beneath the surface of Mars, marking an “unexpected discovery” leading the researchers closer to finding ...

A set of protocols telling scientists what to do – and what not to do – if they ever detect evidence of intelligent life ...