It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the ...

Humpback whales have been caught blowing bubble rings at humans in what may be playful or communicative acts. This discovery ...

The curious minds at What If discuss how humanity’s future could be reshaped by the search for alien life.

A new "Area 51" has been uncovered in a remote mountain in Alaska, and the CIA is said to be closely monitoring the region, ...

For centuries, humanity has wondered whether we are truly alone in the universe. With billions of stars and potentially ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright scepticism. Recently, scientists claimed the “strongest evidence” of ...

How would we communicate with extraterrestrial life forms? Scientists are investigating how we can prepare for contact with ...

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

How can radio astronomers successfully identify extraterrestrial radio signals while discerning them from Earth-based radio signals? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal ...

A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis documented, for the first time, ...