The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

Across astronomy and astrobiology, a quiet but profound shift is underway. Instead of assuming the galaxy teems with ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

We may already be broadcasting signals to the universe and alien life that inadvertently scream "we're here, come find us!" — and any potential intelligent life in the universe could be sending the ...

Humanity is on the way to confirming the existence of non-human entities and making contact with aliens within the next 50 ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but ...

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable result of a series of unlikely evolutionary leaps. But new research by ...

Researchers at SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) might be looking for the wrong thing, says one of SETI's astronomers in The Guardian. They're looking for aliens that are like us.

The Vatican is holding a conference on extraterrestrial life: if there's a more irresistible bit of news for bloggers to riff on, let's hear it. But aliens, it turns out, test theologians' reasoning ...