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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However, light that leaves our star also contains UVC radiation, which has a shorter wavelength than UVA or UVB light and ...

What new methods can be developed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)? This is what a recent white paper ...

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 ...

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.

Plus, Peter Jackson may bring an extinct bird back to life before he directs another movie, which sounds like an entirely ...

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 ...

One of humanity's most incessant searches in recent times is for evidence of extraterrestrial life, or, in other words, the ...