Aliens have long been a staple of science fiction. Yet the possibility of intelligent life beyond Earth is more than a matter of imagination—it is also a subject of serious scientific inquiry.

Thirty years after the first exoplanet was found in 1995, NASA's counter of confirmed worlds outside our Solar System crossed ...

A breakthrough in telescope imaging could reveal countless alien worlds that have been hiding in plain sight. Scientists developed a new technique that uses a digital twin of the James Webb Space ...

Could our earliest radio broadcasts have been heard by alien worlds? Researchers suggest the waves have travelled over 100 ...

Alien experts claim powerful extraterrestrial life exists in the universe, which is beyond the control of any government — and could wipe out life on earth. Following Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett’s ...

Since 1975, Nikon's Small World competition has featured images of strikingly surreal, alien beauty. Here are this year's ...

For example, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and other religions that originate in the Global East "have always conceived of the universe as vast, as going through many cycles of existence," says Jeffery ...

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas giants hugging their stars to planets covered in lava or clouds of gemstones, ...

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 ...