Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...

Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar fingerprints of biology, researchers are training algorithms to spot the deeper ...

“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from ...

After years of discovering exoplanets at a staggering pace, astronomers are now starting to distinguish the simply ...

A new method to recognise the chemical properties of living things could help us detect alien life even if it functions differently from life on Earth. When searching for alien life, scientists ...

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which ...

We might have had it wrong this whole time.

A warehouse worker, Teddy (played by Jesse Plemons), accuses high-powered CEO Michelle (Emma Stone) of being an ...