A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

Electrons released when cosmic rays strike water-ice can provide energy for microbes and facilitate the formation of complex organic molecules.

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

Scientists used the world's largest single-dish radio telescope to scan comet 3I/ATLAS for signs of extraterrestrial life, but found no artificial radio emissions.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...