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

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former President Barack Obama addressed the possibility of extraterrestrial life in a recent interview, responding to questions ...

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

President Trump directed his administration to release files on UFOs and any "alien and extraterrestrial life," an issue that ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about ...

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 ...