Every few months, someone announces we’re on the verge of finding alien life, and the headlines go predictably insane. What ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

It may seem like we are on the verge of discovering alien life. In 2025, a press release stated that we have the "strongest ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist ...

To travel between solar systems, a spacecraft would need extremely sophisticated – if not impossible – technology.

Astronomer Jon Willis warns that alien signals could be passing Earth unnoticed because humans are searching on the wrong ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide ...

The object, called 3I/ATLAS, is only the third interstellar visitor ever detected passing through our Solar System.

Scientists have discovered an 'alien' material inside a massive crater on Earth, sparking new questions about how life may have first emerged on our planet.

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines a very different kind of solar system that could harbor life-forms we haven ...