Some planets may block transmissions to and from Earth from being seen by alien observers, but scientists have cracked how to avoid the issue altogether.

This quiz invites you to embark on a journey across the galaxy, exploring the science and wonder behind exoplanet discovery.

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...

Are some planets actually born from alien wanderers drifting through space? :milky_way: A new theory suggests that interstellar objects like comet 3I/ATLAS might be seeding young star systems, ...

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...

An ocean world that's teeming with microbes — and who knows what other kinds of life — is currently the best explanation for some chemical signatures that the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted in ...

The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything ...

This theory was the brainchild of Francis Crick (yes, the one who helped identify DNA) and Leslie Orgel, the originator of ...