A new line of research proposes that the first clear signs of extraterrestrial intelligence may not come from distant stars, ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new paper.

Alien civilizations may have left traces. We just may not have been looking in the right place.

In Yellowstone National Park, ravens have demonstrated remarkable intelligence by devising a unique method for locating food.

Scientists propose building a lab on the moon to screen Mars and other space samples for alien microbes before they ever ...

University of Florida researchers are exploring how lasers could help astronauts build structures on the moon using materials already available there, including lunar soil transformed into glass. The ...

Pulverised technology from collapsed alien civilisations may lie scattered across the solar system, including on the Moon, a new study suggests. The likelihood of advanced aliens living at the same ...

Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological ...

Something is absorbing light on the surfaces of Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan, and figuring out what it is could be crucial ...

The Moon's biggest scar may be hiding something even stranger than the impact that made it. Deep beneath the South Pole-Aitken basin on the lunar far side, scientists have identified a huge mass of ...

A NASA astronaut preparing for a grueling eight-month stint in orbit reveals a plan to test for extraterrestrial life.