New research shows many people vastly underestimate other people's beliefs in extraterrestrial life. Is social stigma keeping ...

Scientists confirm a Bronze Age iron artifact from Sanxingdui was made from extraterrestrial material, revealing ancient ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...

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 ...

A civilization capable of interstellar travel may also be one that has moved beyond conquest, excess and ecological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A composite view of Mars taken by the Viking I and II probes. NASA/USGS In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible ...

How can we identify stars likely to host planets suitable for life? This question has long motivated astronomers, and an ...

President Trump directed his administration to release files on UFOs and any "alien and extraterrestrial life," an issue that has drawn decades of fascination — and spawned more than a few wild ...

Scientists are turning their attention closer to home, investigating unexpected locations within our solar system for signs ...

Scientists identify exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, a possible Earth-size world orbiting a Sun-like star 146 light-years away ...

When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good idea of where to look.