If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help ...

Bring up aliens and a lot of people will scoff. But not everyone is laughing. Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million ...

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar fingerprints of biology, researchers are training algorithms to spot the deeper ...

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One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions within the next few decades. Maggie Aderin-Pocock says she is “absolutely ...

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Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we ...

The hunt for intelligent life beyond Earth has quietly entered a more exacting phase, and one small, cool star has become a proving ground for how serious that search can be. TRAPPIST-1, a dim red ...

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Elliott, played by Henry Thomas, looks out a window with the alien ET, in the 1982 Stephen Spielberg film, ET the Extra-Terrestrial.(Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images) Since the 1960s, ...