Researchers in China have conducted the most thorough search yet for alien radio signals in the nearby TRAPPIST-1 system, which may harbor potentially Earth-like planets.

Imagine if the nearest intelligent aliens were not across the street, not across the solar system, but on the far side of the Milky Way, some 33,000 light-years away from Earth. That’s the scenario ...

TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star located about 40 light years away that hosts seven Earth-sized rocky planets, with at least ...

Transmissions between Earth and our own spacecraft could tell us where to look for potential alien transmissions.

Recently, Chinese scientists conducted an unprecedented search using the FAST radio telescope in the TRAPPIST-1 system, ...

Earthlings have been ghosted every time we tried phoning E.T. Now an international team of researchers associated with the ...

Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's ...

A new book charts the millennia-old history of our fascination with aliens, and how myth transformed into research.

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for ...

Astrophysicist Avi Loeb is on a mission to prove aliens exist. His peers say he's chasing sensationalism. He reflects on his status as an academic pariah and whether controversial ideas can coexist.

Estimating the chance of getting a message from life beyond Earth, say within the next decade, isn’t easy. Even the best experts are reluctant to offer precise odds. “Anybody who gave you a figure ...