The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and ...

When astronomers announced last month they might have discovered the most promising hints of alien life yet on a distant ...

But what is the science behind extraterrestrial life? Is it possible that humans will ever experience "first contact" with an ...

Dive into the strange and fascinating ecosystems of No Man’s Sky, where procedurally generated creatures blur the line ...

But new research from the University of Chicago is urging caution. After analyzing data from multiple observations of the ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent ...

Excitement around the potential discovery of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b is fading as new analyses cast doubt on initial ...

Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms ...

"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's ...

Carolyn Freissinet, who studies Martian samples collected by the Curiosity rover, said recent claims of alien life simply don ...