But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

Science fiction has imagined everything from little green men to tentacled monsters—but real biology may offer clearer clues. Evolution follows universal rules, meaning alien life on Earth-like ...

Are aliens real? The question has animated conspiracy theories for decades and enthralled at least one former president of ...

SHOCKED astronomers have spotted a “rogue” planet that defies historic theories. A unique “inside out” planetary system with a distant rocky world turns our ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we ...

One group of experts now say that looking for life on water and oxygen-rich planets could be a waste of time.

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we might have a chance at detecting their ...