Professor Brian Cox has revealed how he left BBC bosses ‘panicked’ over potentially finding extraterrestrial life while filming one of his series.

When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good idea of where to look.

Humans could have come from Mars, scientists have said. A study by Johns Hopkins University has found that alien microbes ...

SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...

A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these ...

Stellar plasma can smear alien radio signals before they escape their star system, making them harder for astronomers to detect.

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Avi Loeb, who challenged scientists on the true origin of 3I/ATLAS, reckons alien life form will make contact with us soon ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher for the Northern ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...