In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity ...

The bold question-askers at What If question if octopuses could actually be alien life originating from a moon of Jupiter.

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Sometimes the key to making a breakthrough in research, in any field, is to look at the problem differently than anybody has ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...

Kat Zhou has won the Aquatic Life category in the 2025 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition, while a shot of a ...

In 2023, the scientists and engineers of the SMD were tasked with building the all-important Habitable Worlds Observatory, designed specifically to find alien life on planets light-years away.

A new study is proposing the idea that life on other worlds may not look like life as we know it. A research team dug into a type of reaction known as autocatalysis—a self-perpetuating reaction ...

Tonally speaking, the “Alien” movies span several genres — mainly action, horror and operatic sci-fi. The best double as ...