Learn how a new model shows how waves form on alien oceans, revealing that gentle winds could create massive swells on Titan, ...

Can desert planets with alien life, like the one in the movie *Dune*, exist? Scientists’ answer leans toward “no.” A study ...

A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time.

The search for life on other planets relies, for lack of a better alternative, on what we know on Earth. However, this ...

Ancient Greeks believed in alien life, as well as in gods, souls, and beings that inhabited the Moon, stars, and Heavens.

Deep within massive rocky exoplanets, hidden oceans of molten rock may be generating powerful magnetic fields in an ...

From lava tubes on Mars to ice pockets on Europa, subterranean environments may offer the best chance of finding life—and living safely—beyond our planet. “I was like, ‘OK, I'm pretty sure that ...

More than half the population believes in the existence of intelligent alien life. There's just one snag...a lack of ...

An interactive exhibit in a Crossroads art gallery aims to astonish earthly and extraterrestrial visitors alike. Wichita, Kansas, artists and spouses Mike Miller and Meghan Miller have created ...

It’s not little green men with flying saucers and laser guns that scientists are worried about, instead our foes will be much ...

Far beyond the reach of any spacecraft, a distant world glows with heat so intense that rock itself turns to vapor. In that ...

Reverse-engineering the billion-year-old enzyme nitrogenase clued researchers into how life originally formed on Earth — and ...