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

Alien life may be hiding much closer to home than science fiction would have us believe, according to a particle physicist ...

A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time. If life spreads and changes planetary environments, it could leave behind ...

Remember the WOW signal from 1977? A 72-second narrowband radio signal detected by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope created a significant buzz. But then, everything went silent. For ...

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 ...