For the first time in more than 15 years, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Search for Extraterrestrial ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

In virtual experiments, AI repeatedly misread dead digital organisms as self-replicating life.

The coating could be applied on future spacecraft designed to block light from distant stars hosting exoplanets.

Earth's airports may be broadcasting our existence to the galaxy without anyone intending to. A 2025 study from the University of Manchester found that radar systems at major airports emit ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

Launching in the 2040s, the HWO telescope will search for Earth-like planets and feature swap-out instruments maintained by ...

From Nevada’s Area 51 mythology to McMinnville, Oregon’s UFO Fest, alien lore continues to turn curiosity, conspiracy, and ...

NASA's new alien-hunting telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), will be serviceable out in space (and it will ...

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth could thus be overlooking prime evidence of alien intelligence.

Research indicates airport radar systems may unintentionally broadcast Earth's presence to aliens up to 200 lightyears away, ...

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 ...