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

For decades, humanity has been searching the cosmos for signs of extraterrestrial life, yet we remain alone in our corner of the universe. Despite the vastness of space and the billions of potentially ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

The curious minds at What If explain how finding alien life with the right telescope could completely alter our understanding ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and ...

Do aliens exist? Based on how many alien invasion movies there are, you'd be forgiven that there's gotta be some proof of ...

Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms, but that these storms were far different from those on Earth.

As science develops and our observational instruments improve, there’s a growing optimism within the exoplanet community that ...

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 ...

Set two years before Ridley Scott’s original movie (for reference, Romulus takes place between the first and second movie), ...

First, how do we know what life needs, if we do not understand the full range of extraterrestrial life? Scientists know a lot about life on Earth, but most astrobiologists agree that more exotic ...

The search for life on other worlds needs a way to sift through the chemistry of their atmospheres. If another species observed Earth to search for life, they'd look for "smoking gun" chemistry in the ...