President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post last week that the Department of Defense would be releasing government ...

To support alien life, a planet doesn’t have to be exactly like Earth, but it does need a few key ingredients. First, it ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

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In a Truth Social post, the U.S. president said his move was based on the "tremendous interest" in the subject, without providing additional details.

Astronomers have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology for decades. These searchers since 1960 have ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Planet K2-18b, an apparent water world 124 light years away, has been seen as a promising location in the search for aliens, ...

“The odds that we find something on Mars or Europa are high,” said Jack Pallotto, senior in LAS and president of the Astrobiology Club. “But whether I’ll be there? That’s a different question.” Here ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...